Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wotan!moxie!texsun!male!newstop!sun-barr!decwrl!world!eff!mnemonic From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Apple's right to stop traffic in Mac ROMS Message-ID: <1991Feb28.170656.14314@eff.org> Date: 28 Feb 91 17:06:56 GMT References: <1991Feb23.020232.24678@eff.org> <1991Feb23.062711.5874@looking.on.ca> Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Lines: 29 In article sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: > >I suppose the question is did Apple require such a license, or are >they applying political pressure? Copyright alone can't control what >is happening, they must have made "dealership agreements" or some such >beforehand. > >This stuff reeks of racketeering. It would be a shame :) if Apple >inc. had it's assets confiscated under RICO. Yeah, and what's this bit about Stephen King insisting that his publishers abide by certain restrictions when they distribute and sell copies of his work? I guess he's a racketeer too, eh? So far as I know, Apple's requirements extend only to dealership agreements. Presumably I could sell the ROMs out of my Mac at any time. --Mike -- Mike Godwin, (617) 864-0665 | "You gotta put down the ducky mnemonic@eff.org | if you wanna play the saxophone." Electronic Frontier | Foundation |