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Apple Updates SuperDrive Firmware

Posted by pudge on from the mmmmm-ejecting-CDs dept.

mmarlett writes "(Potentially) In your software update panel: 'The Power Mac G4 SuperDrive Firmware Update installs new firmware on the SuperDrive which addresses an incompatibility with 4x DVD-R and 2x DVD-RW media, and the 2x SuperDrive in the Power Mac G4. You must perform this update if you intend to use 4x DVD-R or 2x DVD-RW media in your Power Mac G4. This update also enables you to eject audio CDs that are copy-protected or have mastering errors. This update is required only for the Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio), the Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver) and the Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) with an internal Apple SuperDrive.'"

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  1. Re:Um, no by Melantha_Bacchae · · Score: 5, Interesting

    daveschroeder wrote:

    > And finally, Apple isn't "cozy" with the DMCA at
    > all. It was the quickest path to get a vendor from
    > illegally distributing iDVD, which is Apple
    > proprietary material, with OEM CD-RW/DVD-RW
    > drives. Though the DMCA may make us cringe, Apple
    > was 100% in the right:

    Even if Apple would have been in the right, I still don't believe Apple even made the threat. All we ever got was the other party's word (no posted copies of actual documents), and that word changed from the original story a few weeks before.

    The original story was that Apple had asked *nicely* for him to stop distributing iDVD with his drives that competed with the SuperDrive, and he agreed to keep good relations with Apple. It was weeks later that the story broke again, this time with him claiming Apple had used the DMCA.

    This struck me as a smear campaign on his part to blacken Apple's good name. The DMCA is a bad law, and it gives any company fool enough to use it plenty of bad PR.

    Apple does not deserve this. Steve Jobs is one of the very few leaders of the computer industry to actually stand up to the RIAA and MPAA for his customers. He is the only one with the courage to do so during his Grammy Awards acceptance speech:

    "If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own."
    Steve Jobs, 2002 Grammy Awards