The OSx86 Project Forum this morning features the following announcement:
(OFFLINE Board Offline) We’re sorry to report that despite our best efforts, the OSx86 Project has been served with a DMCA violation notice. The forum will be unavailable while we evaluate its contents to remove any violations present. We thank you for your patience in this matter.
Most-recently, OSx86 reported on a hidden poetic warning to would-be Mac OS X for x86 hackers from Apple and that hacking guru Maxxuss has announced preliminary patches for Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel. News reports such as these remain on the x86 site, but the forum has been taken offline due to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violation notice.
There is no word from OSx86 about who initiated the complaint that resulted in the DMCA violation notice.
The OSx86 Project Forum offline message is here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader “sailfish” for the heads up.]
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Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel cracked – February 15, 2006
Apple offers hidden poetic warning to would-be Mac OS X for x86 hackers – February 15, 2006
Chunky Monky — I’ve saved that one for posterity! !
Apple certainly has the right to go after the hackers. I for one, however, would love to be able to legally install OS X on other hardware. There are some really cool laptops and towers out there that I would love to use if I could use OS X on them. The fact that they can only run Windows (I don’t go for the esoteric stuff like Linux) is a deal breaker.
I totally dig the Apple gear but a box with two optical drives, a 9 in one media reader, 8 or nine usb ports and a reasonably slick case is attractive. The “PC” gear isn’t all junk – far from it.
The HEAT is on, da da
Lawyers have hit the $treet$, da da
The pressure’s on, da da
For Maxxuss to stay alive, da da
The HEAT is … da da da, on
da da dana da dada da…
This “event” is anticlimactic.
Nothing to see folks; move on.
It has nothing to do with the “Poetic Warning” as people call it.
It’s because their forums encourage discussion about breaking OS X’s built-in system to prevent it from being installed on non-Apple hardware.
It’s “the” place to go to talk about cracking Apple’s OS… Duh!! You will be served and spanked until you agree to not break the law anymore.
OS X is not open source like it’s Darwin roots. Apple has a right here.
Chunky, I like your fifth verse:
Nothing will stop me
Not lawyers or fruit
If they come a-callin’
There’ll be no lawsuit
Not lawyers or FRUIT! That’s good.
I’ve got Mac OS 10.4.3 running in VMWare, in Windows XP, on my Athlon 64 2.6GHz computer I built. It runs really well. I downloaded the Adobe Lightroom Beta 2 and played with it, grabbed Cinebench v9.5 last night and ran benchmarks. I was getting 268 rendering (single processor), 336 Shading (CINEMA 4D). intel iMac 2.0Ghz Macs are scoring 308 rendering (single processor) and 358 Shading (CINEMA 4D), for perspective. Running Cinebench in Windows, I was getting 365 rendering (single processor) and 432 Shading (CINEMA 4D).
Bunch of wussies.
HACK THE DAMN CODE!
It’s what makes America great.
Apple should fire the poetic designer for baiting the hackers!
Uhhhhh, “dude”, you’re an idiot…
Informed: “Get real, dude. That’s like asking if the burglars who broke into your home and stole everything of value are really hurting you.”
No it isn’t. It isn’t all like that. If they were selling knock-off iPods or giving you instructions on how to get free music off iTunes, then it would be like “asking if the burgulars who broke into your home and stole ‘everything of value’ are really hurting you.”
This is more like taking some old lady’s garden gnome from her yard in the middle of the night. Yeah – she may notice one is missing and get a little upset, but it isn’t a big a deal.
OS X quit being significant the moment Apple switched to Intel chips. They knew then (with reasonable certainty) that this was going to happen.
Yeah, all this free publicity about OS X running on PC’s and getting the public all fired up about the chance at having a real alternative to Windows is just killing their stock price.
Did the little poems get into the Intel version of the OS by accident? Not a chance…
Get a life…
Why can’t apple either sell, or give away, 10.2 or 10.3 as evaluation copies? The more people are exposed to OS X means the more they will ultimately buy Apple hardware…
How about these hackers spend their time getting WINDOWS to run on macs instead if vice versa? Now that’s something we actually need and won’t violate any DMCAs. Geez these guys are lame.
It’s easy to get evaluation copies of Mac OS X. Look at any torrent site. That’s where I grabbed a patched version of Mac OS 10.4.3 which runs on generic x86 hardware – I burned it to a DVD and installed it in VMWare, simple.
Tommy Boy, Jeff, Just Wondering, RC and other assortied idiots. This is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of law, which you obviously do not comprehend so shut the f–k up. As for any decision by Apple to allow OSX to be made available to run on PC’s, well that’s a business decision, which you obviously do not understand, so have another tall glass of shut the f–k up!
So, it’s OK to take an old lady’s garden decoration/statue?
How do your friends & family put up with you? Oh, sorry, you must no longer have any.
Kate
Hey Ace, you’re a moron no matter what your Mom tells you.
And when you are done sucking on Steve Jobs nut sack she wants you to go clean your room.
Here’s a thought, most users are not willing to go through all the hassle, plus with also no support from Apple there is a great possibility of crashes and data loss. And to top it off, a patch slash hack, that is made from a hacker that could have a it’s own type of rootkit able to steal your credit card numbers or other sensitive data. If I was a PC user I would be super suspicious and leave this alone. Just buy a Mac!
Would any of you be willing to take that chance?? Sorry you would have to be a dumbass to install software from a hacker outside of the U.S. therefore avoiding prosecution, and install that on your computer. Why don’t you just send him all your private data?
If opening a jpeg/trojan horse that asks for you for your admin password makes you a dumb-ass, installing this makes you King dumb-ass!
What happend to the news today? There’s nothing new.
Jeff (and others)
You’re missing the point!
I live out here in South East Asia… Here its so simple to walk into a STORE and buy a ripped copy of MS Windows or just about any other software you want to get your hands on, Final Cut Pro, Shake, Maya, you name it. And the sad fact is, the majority of people in these parts of the world obtain their software that way (for $2 a time)..
If people like this start making it easier to run cracked versions on Mac OSX on any plain old vanila box, tens if not hundreds of thousands of people will do so with NO plan ever to buy a licensed version of the software.
Apple has to do something about it
Has the worm taken down all Macs except ours?????? Where is the news guys?
Anyone affected by the Trojan?
Should the Mac community put up a challenge to find a single person affected by this “best of class” OS X ‘virus’?
Being able to run OS X on generic PC hardware actually helps Apple and I say that as a stockholder with a lot — for me — invested in AAPL. People get a free OS X test drive and some will opt for a Mac at some point.
Yes, Apple has to take legal action to defend its brand and prevent any liability for Apple for OS X not properly working on unapproved hardware. They will not have to fix drivers and provide support.
BTW, Gates screamed bloody murder when hackers stole his Basic interpreter, but he later realized that the very theft he was complaining about locked in his market. Non paying users of his software robbed Bill Gates for a few years, but then he got to rob them for a few decades. Such a deal.
Apple at some point needs to do some Altivec sort of thing, so that Macs will run OS X better than generic PCs can. Then Apple will reel in a bunch of formerly non paying customers. There is a hook in the apparently free OS X worm.
To all the clueless:
OSX is the crown jewel of what makes a Macintosh a Macintosh.
If your feeble minds consider the outright theft of a company’s main intellectual property the equivalent of stealing a garden gnome or some basic interpreter, than there is no hope for reasoning with you.
You are lost to the world of utter stupidity and retarded intellect. Enjoy your shoot ’em up games, reality tv shows, and lite beer.
Engineering an outright theft is NOT a free “test drive.” If you were really an Apple stockholder (instead of being a pissant poser) you would never say such a moronic thing. Surely you would have a modicum of business knowledge and/or sense.
I have a life, thank you. Mine’s not in la la land.
re: INFORMED
amen to what you said….I know as long as Hackers attempt to destroy the heart and soul of a Mac, people like you and me are here to expose those slime balls and let god be my witness, I will expose those scums..where ever they may appear!
I am here to destroy the heart an soul of the Mac! Grrrr!
“informed”:
“Macintosh” is dead. Go to Apple’s web page and try to find the word “Macintosh”.
Get with the times, man. Apple hasn’t sold anything called a “Macintosh” since the “Macintosh G3”.
Apple killed “Macintosh” a long time ago.