Psystar’s Counterclaim Lawsuit – Tying Contract and Injury

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2 weeks ago, we visited the website of Mac clone computer retailer Psystar Corporation, which Apple, Inc. sued for copyright infringement several months ago. Psystar had an empty web page titled Psystar Corporation – Latest – Litigation under Company on the side bar. Since then, this page has been updated, providing visitors with a downloadable PDF file of their counterclaim lawsuit document against Apple. (See Screenshot 01-2.)

Psystar Mac Open Computer counter lawsuit
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In this 54-page document, Psystar and its legal team repeatedly argue that Apple ties software contracts to selling hardware contracts. For example, we read at Page 26

… APPLE’s illegal tying of the Mac OS to Apple-Labeled Computer Hardware Systems…

Interestingly, this document says that Psystar is aware that Apple only licenses the use of Mac OS for ‘Apple-labeled hardware.’ But it says

… PSYSTAR is without information or knowledge as to what this otherwise value and ambiguous terminology (i.e., Apple-labeled hardware) refers. (Refer to Page 7.)

, which also sounds like a vague argument.  Continue reading →

SPORE Game Play Video – Part 4: Civilization Stage

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The following QuickTime movie shows a game play video of Electronic Arts‘ latest PC / Mac game SPORE. This game play video mainly covers the Civilization Stage and up to the very beginning of the Space Stage.

The game developer says there are three strategies by which you can convert opponent’s city to your regime. In this game play video, we just play a simple elimination game. That is, we use a military strategy to conquer all cities in the map.  Continue reading →

SPORE Game Play Video – Part 3: Tribal Stage

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The following QuickTime movie shows a game play video of Electronic Arts‘ latest PC / Mac game SPORE. This game play video mainly covers the Tribal Stage and up to the very beginning of the Civilization Stage. This stage can be somewhat fun to play if you let your creatures catch fish, send gifts to other tribes and put wild creatures in captivity. If you don’t, this stage can become quite boring.  Continue reading →

Apple Releasing QuickTime 7.5.5

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Apple, Inc. today updated its multimedia application QuickTime to 7.5.5 for both Mac and Windows to increase reliability, compatibility and security. According to the security update article that the company posted today, QuickTime 7.5.5 has several important security fixes including





  • an uninitialized memory access issue fix for third-party indeo v5 codec
  • a stack buffer overflow fix for QuickTime handling of panorama atoms
  • a memory corruption issue fix for QuickTime’s handling of STSZ atoms






    • Click on the button for more information on QuickTime 7.5.5 security fixes. VTC