Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Boing Boing: DRM 'Arms-Dealer' Threatens Mac Software Site

Via Boing Boing.

VersionTracker, an excellent repository for Mac software, has been threatened with legal action by Macrovision (a company that sells malicious anti-copying software that blocks owners of movies and software from making backup copies of them). At issue is a link to MacTheRipper, a program that helps you make backups of your DVDs:

"We have been contacted by Macrovision, who claims this violates their property and are threatening to sue us if we don't remove the links to it. We are checking with our legal advisors to find out what our options are. -VersionTracker Editors"

posted by Fergie @ 2/21/2006 08:38:00 AM

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