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From the article: Psystar copies the hard drive of a Macintosh computer containing Mac OS X (as depicted above on the left side of the diagram) onto its "imag
by bmunro 17y ago
From the article:
Psystar copies the hard drive of a Macintosh computer containing Mac OS X (as depicted above on the left side of the diagram) onto its "imaging station" computer (shown in the middle of the diagram). This is the first unlawful copy.
Psystar then modifies this copy of Mac OS X to create a "master copy" that wil run on non-Apple computers. Psystar next uses "hard drive imaging" to install copies of its "master copy" of Mac OS X from the imaging station onto each computer it assembles. This is the second unlawful copy (a process repeated many times).
Finally, every time Psystar turns on any of the Psystar computers running Mac OS X, which it does before shipping each computer, Psystar necessarily makes a separate modified copy of Mac OS X in Random Access Memory, or "RAM." This is the third unlawful copy.
- frankus 17y agoThis "third unlawful copy" really highlights a glaring incompatibility between copyright law as it exists and digital technology. As it now stands, it is possible to argue that purely incidental copies of digital data are subject to copyright law. The law that used to regulate what a mid-sized or large enterprise did with its printing press now regulates what happens when someone presses "play." That's not to say that copyright lawyers and "big content" aren't pleased with the law as it stands, but it increasingly fails to generate a beneficial tradeoff between incentivizing content creation and supporting a rich public domain.