PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request

doubleacr writes "MacSlash is reporting that PlayFair has been removed from SourceForge.net. Didn't see that one coming." We posted about PlayFair on Monday. SourceForge.net received a DMCA complaint from Apple on Thursday, claiming PlayFair is in violation of the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA, section 1201(a)(2). As per SourceForge.net policy, the project has been disabled. Should the project managers file a counterclaim, the project could be restored. SourceForge.net is owned by OSDN, the parent company of Slashdot.

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How in the world?

[Jack Comics]

from the fair-use-foiled-again dept.

Could that line be any more biased? Exactly how is FairPlay fair use? When the RIAA started cracking down on MP3/digital music sharing, the most common excuse given by those who download and/or share was that it was because CDs were too expensive, and they just wanted one or two songs off of an album that they could download. They even claimed that if they could do this legally for the appropriate price, they would.

Well, Apple (along with others), have granted you your request... tracks off an album you can legally purchase and download without spending $10+ on a CD. But what do some thieves do anyway? They go ahead and download it for free anyway, going around the protections made by the owners and original distributors of the content.

So, what is your excuse now? When it comes down to it, those who are involved in FairPlay and those who use it are nothing more than common thieves, and should be treated appropriately.

Re:Apple making the same dumb mistakes.

[grioghar]

It's shit like this that will only serve to reinforce hardware-based DRM solutions that will lock you out even more.

Thanks for being a prick and ruining it for everybody.

I've got some Karma to burn, so mod as you like. Pulling the "I don't care, I'm gonna do it anyway" attitude will only solidify the **AA's fear and interest in making it near impossible to move digital content around.

FairPlay has been more than reasonable in use, IMHO.

Evil fucks.

[Queuetue]

Think different? Think like goose-stepping assholes, you mean.

I hope we can make them regret this, in the same way that Adobe and EV1 regretted and apologized for their stupidity. (Not that the good side got much besides press out of either victory.)

The DMCA is a bad law and anyone who invokes it should be made to pay pennance. Until they make good for this, Apple sucks.

And while I'm on the subject, Blizzard sucks too.

Remember thier names and mention them often - make invoking the DMCA the kiss of death for a company.

Re:Project still available elsewhere.....

[dasmegabyte]

Wait...so you're saying by NOT BREAKING THE LAW, nor SUPPORTING OTHERS who break it, I am supporting tyrannical legislation? There's no possibility that I just think it's hypocritical to ignore the laws just because you don't like it?

Maybe you're right. Prisons, after all, are full of free-thinking anarchists who just wanted to evade barriers to truly free markets. Barriers like taxes, personal property, and insecure front doors.

Above all else, change happens. The reason India and China are becoming the dominant economic powers is because we don't have proper barriers to truly free markets. You can't hemmorage cash to the third world and not expect to become anemic. People who think like me are going to prevent the change that happens from burying the country. We are going to do so by making it more difficult for the greedy to violate the rights of others and call it "free market." We are going to do so, because unchecked greed has lead to all of the great economic failures in human history. But, you know, keep ignoring the past if it makes you feel better.

Incidentally, I think it's hilarious that you're complaining about tyrannical legislation, then claiming that we'll be overtaken by India and China. If socialist governments are so damned glorious and efficient, why are you against them?

(The OSS thing was a reference to some of your other hopelessly ivory tower posts. I like to read up on assholes before I respond to them. I think a personal response is far more satisfying than an offhanded flame.)