{"id":1739,"date":"2007-09-26T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/26\/why-does-apple-get-a-free-ride\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:34:48","slug":"why-does-apple-get-a-free-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/26\/why-does-apple-get-a-free-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Apple get a free ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really don’t want to get into the usual pissing match that seems to occur whenever someone fails to bow down and worship Steve Jobs’ every move, but I can’t help myself. Why aren’t we seeing more outrage — okay, even a little bit of outrage — about the news that Apple twisted the arm<\/a> of some guy’s ISP because he was uploading the code embedded in his iPod Touch’s memory.<\/p>\n

apple-tstripes.jpgAccording to several reports, this guy was in the process of uploading some of the code stored in his broken iPod’s flash memory, and all of a sudden his Internet provider cuts him off<\/a> — at the request of Apple. As far as those who have been writing about it can gather, Apple was able to move so quickly because it has been monitoring<\/a> IRC groups devoted to hacking the Touch.<\/p>\n

When DVD Jon hacks the DVD encoding scheme, or the Blue-Ray encoding scheme, or any of the half-dozen other things he has hacked and released into the wild — something that contravenes copyright rules just as much as what the iPod hacker was doing does — everyone cheers because he is fighting The Man, and information wants to be free, etc. etc.<\/p>\n

But when The Man happens to be Steve Jobs, all of a sudden people seem to start singing a different tune. Meanwhile, in other Apple=hardass news, there’s this<\/a>. Now it seems that we all need to add the term “bricking” to our vocabulary.<\/p>\n

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I really don’t want to get into the usual pissing match that seems to occur whenever someone fails to bow down and worship Steve Jobs’ every move, but I can’t help myself. Why aren’t we seeing more outrage — okay, even a little bit of outrage — about the news that Apple twisted the arm … <\/p>\n

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