“Code-crackers risk fines and prison time when they defeat copy-protection technology, but such draconian rules likely don’t apply in the case of RealNetworks and its iPod ‘hack,’ legal experts said,” John Borland reports for CNET News. “Some attorneys have said Apple might have a better case under traditional contract or copyright law. The iPod comes with a license agreement that bars reverse engineering, and if Apple can argue that RealNetworks violated that agreement, the company might have a stronger case.”
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