“WASHINGTON — Apple Computer has invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent its customers from burning DVDs on external drives. Earlier this month, the company’s lawyers sent a stiff warning to an Apple dealer, warning that a patch to Apple’s iDVD burning software ran afoul of the controversial 1998 copyright law. ‘They alleged it violated Apple’s intellectual property and the DMCA act,’ said Larry O’Connor, president of Other World Computing, a Macintosh dealer…”
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