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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

DMCA stops discussion of Mac OS X on PCs

"Apple Computer appears to have invoked the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OS X to run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The chatter at the OSx86 Project was stifled Friday after the forum was served with a notice under the DMCA, according to a posting on the site," reports CNet. (The forum is closed, not the whole site.)

"Win2osx.net, another Web site that hosts discussions related to getting Mac OS X onto chips with the x86 instruction set, was also down Friday." (The whole site seems to be down.)

Comment: Maybe they could get their sites hosted in China and see if the US government tries to block them....

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