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From: Barry Levine
To: epmug-at-yahoogroups.com

Bear recently posted about some Intel technology that would shut off your Mac if you attempted to run certain software or DRM-protected media. Turns out he was pretty close to the point.

Intel's recent preso to the vendors who make media players (DVD players, etc.) talked ( Read more... )

[N.B.: Sic, apparently this was translated from German ( Read more... )

( Down 'n' Dirty with Chilling Effect )

Mac OS X, long known in the open-source computing community as "Darwin," has become a hot potato recently. Thanks to media attention, people are flooding in to online forums and reading what information they can find regarding how to make OS X run on a regular PC ( Read more... )

While you were sleeping last night, February 16, 2006, Apple Computer, Inc. brought forth its lawyers and shut down popular blogging sites - two each from the domains OSx86Project.org and Win2OSx.net.

How were they able to do this? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Please see the link I have for DMCA, and let me tell you that I fully agree ( Read more... )