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Apple “has no case” in efforts to suppress Linux iPod software   
Wednesday, November 26 2008 @ 02:57 PM EST
Contributed by: sde

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has chastised Apple for attempting to quash efforts to build open source software for syncing iPods and iPhones.

Earlier this month, a lawyer representing Apple sent a takedown notice to Bluwiki.com, asking the website to remove pages that explained how to circumvent measures that Apple had put in place to prevent the use of third-party software to sync its portable devices, most notably on machines running Linux for which no version of iTunes is available.

“It has come to our attention that a website you operate, www.bluwiki.com, is disseminating information designed to circumvent Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management system,” wrote Ian Ramage, of law firm O’Melveny & Myers.

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