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Update on Playfair

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gonna-get-messier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A few weeks back, Slashdot reported that Apple had sent a cease and desist letter to Sarovar.org, the Indian site hosting the Playfair project. This is the first incident in India where a corporation has used legal means to shut down a Free Software project. Some of the prominent members of the Open Source/Free Software community in India have issued an update on this situation. There is also an interesting post in the FSF-India mailing lists."

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  1. Coverage on K5 also. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some nice discussion here.

  2. Read the "Terms Of Service" by supercobrajet428 · · Score: 5, Informative
    A Quote from the "Terms Of Service" which you MUST AGREE TO in order to purchase tracks from the ITMS:


    Any burning or exporting capabilities are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver (or other limitation or implication) of any rights of the copyright owners in any content, sound recording, underlying musical composition, or artwork embodied in any Product.

    You agree that you will not attempt to, or encourage or assist any other person to, circumvent or modify any security technology or software that is part of the Service or used to administer the Usage Rules.

    The delivery of Products does not transfer to you any commercial or promotional use rights in the Products.

    It's not really a question about whether it's ethical or not. If you have music from the ITMS, you bought it from Apple, and YOU AGREED TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE. If you make a piece of software to "circumvent or modify any security technology or software that is part of the Service" than you are breaking your contract with Apple, and thusly breaking the law. It's pretty simple.