Takedown Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple sends takedown notice about customer support email

by Mike Schramm (Feb 3rd, 2012)

If you've ever corresponded with Apple Support (or any major customer support outlet, really), you might have seen that little notice at the bottom of the email that says any conversation included "may be privileged and may contain confidential information." Most of the time, that's just a weak ...

The Register fighting Apple takedown notice

by Mike Schramm (Aug 27th, 2009)

'Twas the night before Snow Leopard, and all through the 'net, Apple was sending takedowns for previews of software that technically wasn't out yet... Snow Leopard is almost out, but "almost" isn't quite good enough for Apple. Apparently they sent a last-minute takedown notice to The Register for ...

Redbox puts the kibosh on community-developed iPhone app

by Michael Rose (Mar 26th, 2009)

Davis Freeberg over at Zatz Not Funny has a detailed post this morning on the takedown of the Inside Redbox Mobile app for the iPhone, which was removed from the App Store at the request of Redbox. If you've never heard of Redbox (I hadn't myself before this morning), it runs DVD rental kiosks in ...

Apple issues C&D takedown order to Hymn project software

by Erica Sadun (Feb 20th, 2008)

Wow. Good thing that DoubleTwist is waiting in the OS X wings for anyone who wants to rip DRM from their iTunes purchases. Apple just issued a C&D off to the ISP hosting the Hymn-inspired Requiem software. DrmBytes, a hymn moderator, posted that hymn-project.org will no longer allow links to ...

Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP

by Mike Schramm (Sep 25th, 2007)

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 ...