Good thing California has an anti-SLAPP statute.

I agree that what Apple is doing is simple intimidation and doing it knowlingly with no real legal force. I imagine that Apple's behavior doesn't fall under free speech violation. I bet it would fall under frivilous litigation or litigious harassment.

Should enlist the help of the world + dog's foremost expert on all things rotten Apple: Nick Farrell
"Its [Apple's] cult of emotionally immature Apple fanboys police the Internet screaming their religious doctrine of superiority found in owning an expensive gadget to any hack who dares say that there is."
It is easy to see where the fanbois derive their impudence; THE APPLE DOESN'T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE - There's an App for that (So all yous trolls going pastel on Nick are simply showing your true colours_ get an ilife, already). sheesh Angel to Zen

Yes, "A privately owned websight (sic) has the right to remove whatever they wish." However your reading comprehension skills seem to have failed you. It's OdioWorks, the owners of BlueWiki, who filed the lawsuit, not the users who posted the removed messages.

the Cupertino flogger of expensive PCs and personal technotoys

Thanks!
This great description made me laugh early in the morning.

Btw, Im using Rockbox on the Ipod I got as a Xmas bonus at work(?).

Once you buy a piece of hardware, you should be able to do what you want with it.
Whether its this:
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=ipod
adding some other OS or software or even using it as a door stopper.

I dont see Honda forbidding people to mod civics in the tackiest way possible (riceburners).
If I want to paint it aqua, its my car.

I use Mandriva Linux and not Mac OS10. I need to get the Ipod to work with my OS of choice. If you cant/Wont help, then please get the F*** out of the way and the community will do what Apple wont.

For those interested, Im using the Rayboradio theme for Rockbox found here:
http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?target=ipodvideo

Nice use of double quotes vs. single. Perhapse you should sue your own school.

@Rich Wargo - the 'news' in this article is not that Apple is cockblocking, it's that Apple is being sued for cockblocking

Maybe you should "sew" your school for failing to properly instruct you in the language arts, grammar, composition, use of the dictionary, and etc.

Sounds like a frivilous lwasuit to me. People are too sew happy these days.

Hrumph. Not surprising, given that almost all Apple employees are prissy, sissy boys who can't handle when people just don't fall at their feet worshiping them and their overpriced bling. Unable to admit that their products aren't perfect and that they can walk on water.

But then, what should one expect from a company based in gay fantasy land?

Now, if Apple were to openly solicit advice from its users for improvements, now THAT would be news.

Apple has been removing threads from sites for a long time now. I remember them removing linked sites that Toms Hardware had posted up not to long ago. I can't remember what the story was but, they did it twice. You would click the link to see the rest of the story or get more details from another site Toms had linked and it would be taken down already. The screen issue story, that's what it was, so they have been doing stuff like this for awhile. Good damage controll yes, bad judgement, absolutely. I don't like Apple by the way.