Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP

Apple maybe well within there rights...but all they are doing is alienating customers by showing how much of control freaks they really are. Really what is this actually accomplishing besides drawing more attention to the possibility that there is something good that may come out of the hacks and thus getting more people interested in seeing this thru?

I don't see the big idea.

It's Apple's copyright, they are just trying to protect it!

Look in the legal section of your iTouch, do you see alot of companies that contributed? I am sure they don't want their software stolen.

The iPod Touch and iPhone are both Apple's intellectual property and they have the right to stop any person or team hacking their products. Apple can't stop hackers from doing so but they can slow them down.

if they would open up the device, with a standard API, accessable to developers, to build applications, this devices (iphone and ipod touch) would be much more attractive to endusers (think of a similar handling like the widgets in dashboard) and also attract a huger audience in case you have a developer community behind you.

So from my point of view, apple is completly on the wrong way. I am a fan of the osx and what they achieved in the past. But as long as they act like this I won't buy any further apple products.

It impossible to close the platform.

Apple never has a good track record on its software security. They should use their resource more wisely.

hello! haha thats funny!

Tis is absolutely ridiculous. There is a distinct line between protecting your copyright, and then preemptively approaching the guys ISP.

Hey Apple, if I get my hands on the source the iPod touch I will be releasing it all over on various Google code pages ... go for it, attack Google preemptively.

Also, Martyn ... drop the source on Pirate Bay for same keeping...that would solve this problem very quickly.

@koreyel

invoke whatever you want. the whole "if you're not one of us, you're one of them" mentality worked so well for President Bush, I'm sure it'll work well for you too. Good luck with that.

Go ahead and cut your garden hose into however many pieces you want, it won't have any effect on the hose maker's ability to sell the spray attachments, or their other fine gardening products. Your analogy is flawed. And you can't compare tinkering with your car to tinkering with your iPod Touch...it's like comparing lawnmowers to jet fighters.

It is disappointing IMHO to see Apple sabotaging their customers' hard work. I don't know how keeping the platform closed from usefulness benefits them in any way. It's certainly leaving a bad taste in their customers' mouths.

The new iPhone firmware will be hacked.
The iPod touch will be hacked.

There is nothing Jobs can do about it.
Yes Steve, it is a cat and mouse game:

The world of hackers are the Cat.
Apple programers are the Mouse.

The Open Source model tells you who is going to eat who.
The food chain is inevitable.
The food chain is one-way.
Cats eat mice.
Duh.

The key for Apple is figuring out how much money to waste trying to lock down that which can not be locked down. They need to satisfy the ATT contract.
How much money and talent do they have to throw at the problem to do that?
Lots.
It will cause attrition of their life force.

And that's good.
They need to learn a lesson here.
In fact the corporate world as a whole needs to learn a lesson here:

When I buy something it belongs to me.
I can hack it all I want.
Whether it is tweaking horsepower in a car...
Or cutting a garden hose into several smaller hoses...
I do want I want with the things I buy.
If you don't like that...
Tough.

If you agree with the above sentiment...
Congratulations. You are still a human.

If you don't...
May I invoke Godwin's law and suggest that you are a corporate brown shirt?