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Apple Declares DRM War On Sneaker Hackers

Posted by kdawson on from the your-clothing-can-tell dept.

theodp writes "Nicholas Carr is not pleased that Apple has applied for a patent to extend DRM to tennis shoes and other articles of clothing. Apple apparently views tennis-shoe DRM as a way to head off a potential plague of sneaker hacking. 'Some people,' the patent application observes, 'have taken it upon themselves to remove the sensor from the special pocket of the [iPod-linked] Nike+ shoe and place it at inappropriate locations (shoelaces, for example) or place it on non-Nike+ model shoes.'"

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  1. woowooo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bitxces and hoes!

    beer* too, as can explain the spellliong mistakes mutherduckers...

    amberbaches is good beer, as is some tohers like, i don't know.. corona maybve???

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  2. They have been replaced with... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Bizarro world by HalAtWork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you use none of your mod points, you should be given one mod point that lasts for an additional 5 days.

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