“Without the legal option of selling Mac clones or the Rebel EFI firmware needed to trick Mac OS X into installing on non-Apple PCs, Psystar has had little choice but to cease most of its main business and has taken to selling t-shirts protesting the loss,” MacNN reports.
“Without [a successful] appeal, the Florida-based PC shop is otherwise faced with having to pay nearly $2.7 million in settlement damages to Apple for allegedly violating the Mac producer’s license agreement, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other copyright-related issues,” MacNN reports.
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Seriously, guys? Just go home. It’s over. I heard there’s a good market for fake Rolex watches.
Lucky Lawyers! I’ll bet that they are telling Psystar that they have a pretty good chance and that they should definitely go ahead with this!
Does a convicted cocaine dealer appeal based on the argument that without his illegal goods he would be out of business?
This is the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Anything can happen.
F.O.A.D!
It’s widely believed that “someone” is funding these clowns in order to achieve a goal of some sort. I got to wondering… what if it is Apple setting this all up in order to set a legal precedent regarding their rights to tying OS X to the Mac? That’s as good a conspiracy theory as any. 😀
It is a bunch of dumbass lawyers (sorry, is that redundancy?) trying to make a name for themselves as working for the oppressed against the big bad corporation. No conspiracy, just good old greed!
Go Psystar Go!
Nothing unusual here, they’re just buying another ticket in the Lawsuit Lottery.
Thankfully, Psystar’s chances of success are correspondingly slim.
Really, there’s nothing surprising about this. Isn’t it standard operating procedure to file an appeal if there’s even a ghost of a chance of getting a ruling overturned?
Remember, the success rate of appeals is only something like 25%. Psystar doesn’t get to make all it’s arguments again during the appeal. All they can do is convince the appellate court that Judge Alsup made some procedural mistake. And that’s damned unlikely.
——RM
OK, so I hadn’t seen the Psystar t-shirt, and just went to their site to check it out.
THE PATHETIC BASTARDS ARE TAKING DONATIONS!!!!
That’s right, you can go to their site and make a donation, presumably to either pay their legal costs, or the penalty they owe Apple.
Donations amounts are $20, $50, or $100.
They’re still thinking big. Although, I suppose or long lost friend RattyMouse donated.
BTW, the t-shirt is lame.
In other news, Cowboys file appeal against Vikings win….
Deus
denied!
@Rike
Right! The Cowboys were denied 34 times yesterday!
We all agree with you–“Go, Psystar! Go Away!!”