Their first lawyers have been asking to be paid $88,000 for a while, which we know from Psystar's bankruptcy filings. Their second lawyers are only paid if they win.
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Their first lawyers have been asking to be paid $88,000 for a while, which we know from Psystar's bankruptcy filings. Their second lawyers are only paid if they win.
From a legal point of view, this wouldn't have helped much. To run MacOS X on a non-Apple computer, making it compatible is not enough - Apple actively prevents MacOS X on non-Apple computers, and they would have to get around that somehow, and that would be a DMCA violation. Not only for the person doing the installing, but also for the people building the computer, which would be Psystar.
Of the damages that Psystar was ordered to pay, only a tiny amount is for copyright infringement, the majority is for DMCA violation (Apple asked for $2500 per violation, which would be $2500 per computer. Which completely kills the business).
If you copy it, that would be copyright infringement and then they sue you and when you lose you can print your own T-shirt!
Posting a link would be inducement and/or contribution to copyright infringement. In other words, Psystar is providing the components and instructions on how to violate Apple's copyright (via EULA breach, DMCA breach, etc.) Both inducing copyright infringement and contributing to copyright infringement are treated identically to direct copyright infringement; i.e.: they're illegal.
In fact, Judge Alsup, in his order, enjoined Psystar from assisting, contributing, etc. to infringement of Apple's copyrights.
If you copy it, that would be copyright infringement and then they sue you and when you lose you can print your own T-shirt!
By Psystar's logic, you should go to Psystar's website and print out a color copy of the shirt and go get a million copies made and sell them and pocket the proceeds or donate them to Apple to fight Psystar - after all, once you load a web page you should be free to "do whatever you want with it."
you took the words out of my mouth plus the stupid t-shirt is not even that funny but actually pathetic !
Those of us with a pinch of logic called this one before it all started.
Psystar is trying to be hip and scrape as much cash from their followers that had money (less than a 1000 machines sold) as they can before they finally crumble.
For those that said they can't blame them, I can... Psystar as said previous is a circus. A pathetic joke of a circus.
Psystar is trying to be hip and scrape as much cash from their followers that had money (less than a 1000 machines sold) as they can before they finally crumble.
For those that said they can't blame them, I can... Psystar as said previous is a circus. A pathetic joke of a circus.
HAHAHA!
This is probably one of the best bits I have read here in a while!
A little taste of their own medicine would be classic. Could you imagine Psystar trying to defend against this one... I'd pay to see it.
Maybe they represented themselves, like a serial killer did a couple of years ago. Also what people do frequently at the Papakura District Courts.
1) I realize I should have said they're and have fixed it since them. What I mean by "They're not a company like Apple" is that Psystar makes their money by far less honorable practices than Apple.
Didja know that "internalize" means to stew over something internally and not put it out in public? Like on a website?
This has hopefully been said, but if not here goes.
A company is NOT a monopoly simply because it has control over how its product is sold or used. Where you and everyone else who makes this argument go wrong is in confusing the product with the market. The market is operating systems not Mac OS. A product is rarely its own market.
There are tons of alternatives in this market and some are far more established than Mac OSWindows, Linux, BSD, HPUX, Solaris, et cetera. We're also, of course, ignoring the fact that a monopoly also has to actively leverage its position to stifle competition within that market. A company can lead the market by a wide margin and still not be a monopoly. A company can even offer the only product in the market and not be a monopoly.
Now what Psystar did was completely wrong. They ripped off Apple, the open source community, and now technically even The Pirate Bay. They used Apple's own trademark and product to sell their computersalbeit very few. That'd be like me repackaging Jiff as Jaff and saying it contains 100% real Jiff peanut butter.
I don't think anybody argues with that. Psystar operates with very little respect to other people's property. I just called you out on something that was glaringly wrong.
So by this logic you're saying that if I purchase tires and locking lug nuts from Jeep for my Mustang and rip my fenders off when I turn, it's Jeep's fault?
