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Apple to settle EU/iTunes case

Posted Jan 8th 2008 6:00PM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: Apple Corporate, iTS

Are you UK readers ticked off that you pay £0.79 in London but only €0.99 in Paris for the same iTunes track? Well be ticked off no more. In a yet-to-be-officially-revealed settlement, Apple has agreed to announce pricing changes that will harmonize iTunes Store per-song costs across Europe.

So does this mean that we'll soon see iTunes Europe rather than the mishmash of individual country stores? It's not out of the question.

Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP

Posted Sep 25th 2007 11:15PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Hacks, Apple

Yesterday, Erica posted in her state of the iPod touch jailbreak that a hacker named "Martyn" had obtained a broken iPod touch, and was planning to dive in and download every bit of code on it in the increasingly complicated effort to put 3rd party applications on the iPod touch. He didn't plan to release the code to the public, but he did plan to upload the code to a secured area of his site in order to let the other touch hackers have a crack at it.

But even before his upload finished, we're told, his ISP showed up, with a takedown notice in hand. Apple had somehow found his site, had contacted his ISP, and let them know that it would be against copyright law for him to upload that code to the Internet. Martyn isn't interested in breaking the law (and it would be illegal to share that code), so he pulled the page off. But what's amazing here is how fast Apple moved on this-- either they've got someone listening in on the development wiki, or they're taking cues from us on how things are going over there (hi, Apple!).

Despite what we've heard before, clearly they are very, very interested in making sure the iPod touch doesn't get hacked. Martyn tells me, as has Erica, that Apple has clearly gone out of their way to keep hackers out of their latest iPod. We're also told that progress continues despite all that, but Apple is apparently bending over backwards to do everything they can to keep the iPod touch closed.

Running a bittorrent client from the iPhone

Posted Jul 25th 2007 11:00AM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Multimedia, Video, Cool tools, Internet Tools, iPhone

A few days ago, TorrentFreak speculated about how someone might create a bittorrent client for the iPhone. While it seems technically possible (except for that nagging "no SDK" problem, which makes it hard to get code running on there), you might question why it needs to be done - since there are plenty of good legal torrents out there, it just seems easier to get them on your Mac first, and then sync them to your iPhone. Still, I'm sure there are quite a few people out there who want to do torrenting on the fly, so maybe it'll be done eventually.

In the meantime, the P2P blog has a neat tip that lets you almost get bittorrent on your iPhone. Almost every bittorrent client (including Azureus, which is what I use on my Mac) can establish a remote connection via a browser, which the iPhone has. Using a plugin for Azureus (here's one that P2P recommends, and here's another that they say might work better with the iPhone), you can start and stop downloads, and even queue up local torrents.

At this point, the plugin's search function doesn't work (so you must have the torrent sitting on your local box in the first place), but in the future, you'll be able to find and queue a torrent on your iPhone, and then have it ready to go when you get home.

iPhone Licensing Agreement

Posted Jun 26th 2007 9:00PM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: iPhone

Gallery: iPhone License Agreement

TUAW is pleased to bring you a gallery of the complete iPhone licensing agreement from the iPhone activation video earlier today. We haven't given it a full going-through yet (and frankly, we're not lawyers), so please let us know if you find any particularly intriguing or surprising language. It contains legalese about the terms and conditions for the iPhone software, the iTunes store and Google Maps.

Update: Here's part 2 with the AT&T license.

Gallery: License Agreement #2: AT&T

Thanks go to Michael B.

iPod sex toy maker threatened by Apple over use of silhouettes

Posted Dec 13th 2006 4:00PM by David Chartier
Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, Odds and ends

Remember the iBuzz we found over a year ago? The supposed iPod sexy toy accessory that can *ahem* buzz along to your favorite tunes? Turns out they started employing some silhouette marketing to the product, which earned them a threat of legal action from Apple over the use of their darling faceless characters.

The iBuzz creators posted details of the threat on their site (warning: NSFW. No nudity, but close enough), noting how strange it is that Apple took over a year to go after them. They also point out the creator of another iPod-related sexy toy, called the gPod, whose inventor is obviously having a problem registering a trademark (for obvious pod-related reasons).

Not to worry though - towards the end of their page about the legal action, iBuzz states they are about to launch a new site for the upcoming iBuzz 2.0 (no, really), complete with a shiny new silhouette-less animation anyway. Sounds like people are doing a lot more than rocking out with their iPod these days.

[via iLounge]

WA fines Apple $100k

Posted Jun 14th 2006 6:00AM by Dan Lurie
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple Financial, Bad Apple, Apple

How did Apple Legal miss this? Under a 1999 law, any company who sells service contracts (think AppleCare) in the state of Washington must register with the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. Apparently, Apple somehow neglected to do this between 2000 and 2004, incurring a fine of $100,000. First France, then Norway and Sweden, and now Washington?

According to sources, this is not the first time Apple has neglected to follow the rules. It is widely known in the valley that Apple never tuned in its homework when it was in school, as it was too busy flirting with NeXT.

[via MacNN]

Patent infringement lawsuit hits Apple

Posted Apr 18th 2006 10:00AM by David Chartier
Filed under: iPod Family, iTS, Software, iTunes, Apple

In a move that screams 'I was waiting for the right time to mention it,' Burst.com yesterday filed a patent counterclaims lawsuit against Apple Computer, claiming that their iTunes, iTMS, iPod and QuickTime Streaming infringe on four of their patents.

It appears that this time around Apple actually fired first. Earlier this year, Apple asked the courts to render Burst's patents invalid, which sparked this counterclaim they filed yesterday. Burst has stated that they had hoped to avoid the courts and negotiate a "reasonable license fee," but it seems that a court is exactly where these two companies will need to settle the dispute.

Check out Macworld's article if you're interested in more details surrounding the case.

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Apple to settle EU/iTunes case

Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP

Running a bittorrent client from the iPhone

iPhone Licensing Agreement

iPod sex toy maker threatened by Apple over use of silhouettes

WA fines Apple $100k

Patent infringement lawsuit hits Apple

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