“Apple Computer has settled with the last of three men it said leaked prerelease versions of Mac OS X Tiger onto the Internet,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News. “The company confirmed on Wednesday that it has reached a pact with David Schwartzstein, who had been a member of an Apple developer group.”
“In December 2004, Apple sued three men, as well as unnamed others, in federal court in San Jose, Calif. The company said the men had posted developer versions of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger onto BitTorrent file-sharing servers ahead of the software’s official release. It settled one of the cases this March and another in April,” Fried reports. “Apple publicly released Tiger on April 29. Most of the details of the settlement were not made public.”
Full article here.
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and a quick check of your favorite torrent sites will reveal that that version of Tiger is still there …. oh well
MW: “Business”….as in business as usual
Of course it’s still there. That’s not the lawsuit. The lawsuit was for putting there in the first place
actually, i think this lawsuit was made because they posted the software before it was released. otherwise they’d be suing everyone that posts OS X
…which, muntz, if they could, they would probably do.
*cough* is this what your all looking for?
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/i/tt_case_doc01.pdf
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/i/tt_case_doc02.pdf
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/i/tt_case_doc03.pdf
Like duh, they had to know each developer copy of pre-release software is digitally signatured.
What dumb arses.
“From: hairbo
Dec 14, 05 – 05:24 pm
…which, muntz, if they could, they would probably do”
they don’t though. there isn’t one lawsuit that they are pursuing pertaining to illegal file-swapping of their on the shelf OS. are you deprived of circulation to your head? if the RIAA can sue someone for trading a few music files, how hard do you think it would be for apple or MS to find someone trading 1GB-plus files?
get back to your life of mouth-breathing
Most thieves are not smart people.
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