The best analogy is the Beatles, in the late '60s, suing a group called The Psystars for singing and recording Paul McCartney songs and having the Psystars, as their defense, claim restraint of trade rising to the level of a Trust violation against the Beatles for prohibiting other groups from singing the Beatles' original songs and claiming the Beatles should be required to license their music to other groups.
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2 posted on
08/04/2008 8:37:59 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Beatles LOL! Didn't Apple and the Beatles do a little legal dancin' over "Apple"? I liked your analogy.
3 posted on
08/04/2008 8:43:32 PM PDT by
blu
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To: Swordmaker
Oh, more OT here:
So, the looters are suing the producers, because the producers won't give the looters a cut for work they (the looters) didn't do.
Paging Mr. Galt..
4 posted on
08/04/2008 8:46:56 PM PDT by
blu
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To: Swordmaker
First off Psystar should never have went the route they did with their clones. They are in the wrong.However in a small, tiny sort of way I can see where an anti-trust suit could be made. Whether it would hold water is a thing left to the courts and people wiser than me.
6 posted on
08/04/2008 9:06:56 PM PDT by
aft_lizard
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To: Swordmaker
So Psystar hired some Shyster to skin a fat cat.. Sounds like that was the plan from the get go..
7 posted on
08/04/2008 9:57:17 PM PDT by
tubebender
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To: Swordmaker
They have an interesting point, in that no one was stealing their software. The software was purchased, and then Apple wants to say "you can only do X with it" even when it can be made to do Y instead. Second, tying the sale of one item to another item is usually considered illegal under anit-trust law.
One well known example was the case where Caterpillar was sued when they would not work on a machine they sold that was under warranty, if you used a third party air filter. CAT lost.
8 posted on
08/04/2008 10:12:39 PM PDT by
ikka
To: Swordmaker
Except that the Beatles did license their music to other groups. Otis Redding’s cover of “Day Tripper” springs to mind.
To: Swordmaker
The analogy is better said as the Beatles only allow their albums to be sold directly from Apple (Records) authorized retailers. But Psystar bought a bunch of them and resold them at their own unauthorized record stores, and not in the original slip covers.
To: Swordmaker
Why are they having this fight? Why would a company want to sell something that is not nearly as good as Vista on cheap run of the mill PCs one can build himself? Besides, they only have a puny percentage of the market so what is the big deal?
:-)
Just a little dig at our PC interlopers on these threads.
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