Well they weren’t slow out of the gate. The Apple legal swarms have descended on an iPod hacker. It appears that Apple has their ear to the ground.
From TUAW:
a hacker named “Martyn” had obtained a broken iPod touch, and was planning to dive in and download every bit of code on it in the increasingly complicated effort to put 3rd party applications on the iPod touch. He didn’t plan to release the code to the public, but he did plan to upload the code to a secured area of his site in order to let the other touch hackers have a crack at it.
But even before his upload finished, we’re told, his ISP showed up, with a takedown notice in hand. Apple had somehow found his site, had contacted his ISP, and let them know that it would be against copyright law for him to upload that code to the Internet. Martyn isn’t interested in breaking the law (and it would be illegal to share that code), so he pulled the page off. But what’s amazing here is how fast Apple moved on this– either they’ve got someone listening in on the development wiki, or they’re taking cues from us on how things are going over there (hi, Apple!).
Competitive intelligence anyone?
Tags: Apple Take Down Notice, iPod Hacker ISP Takedown
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