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December 1, 2009 at 1:53 pm
rafael lopez
Well, it seems like they are breaking the law. They are using Mac’s software on a non mac which was prohibited and basically illegal. Even though its cool they were selling macs for a cheap price, but still they broke the law. And that’s why they are going to be out of business.
December 1, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Elizabeth Franco
I think that Psystar did break the law because the macs where already in existance. i think that they could have joined with the mac company and then see if they would want to make their idea happen or not.
December 1, 2009 at 1:57 pm
javier linares period 3
i don’t think they broke the law. they just made a better Pc that can run on mac programs. that is good because people can buy a cheaper kind of mac. their just scared that they will lose a lot of money. that is why they sued them for a lot of money. that is what i think about the subject and how i feel.
December 1, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Gustavo Calderon Per3
they stole macs ideas and then they started to sell them thats like copyright they toke the macs and then just made some changes.
December 1, 2009 at 1:58 pm
sergio perez p-3
what i understand is that they didn’t broke the law.
because court agree with them too. so they broke the key technological
measures to prevent mac ox x from operating on non apple computers.
so they didn’t have much argued.
December 1, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Josie rivera :]
it is illegal because apple is not getting any profit. also apple has a copyright.
December 1, 2009 at 2:01 pm
cristian ortiz olvera
i think they don’t broke the law. they just mede a better pc that can run on mac programs ther just scared that that they would lose a lot of many. that is good because people could buy cheaper kind of mac. thats why they sued them for a lot of money.
December 1, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Victor Solis
I believe that it is illegal for the reason that company Macintosh isn’t getting any income from the selling of this “Mac Clone” computers. From my point of view i would say that the Mac Clones are a PIRATED VERSION of the original Mac computers.
December 1, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Angelica Sanchez
In my personal opinion i agree with the court for the reason that nobody has the right to take something that you own in which you work hard. In the other hand, Psystar was selling it for a cheaper price than Apple, in which it was a great job for those people who had the chance to buy the Psystar.
December 1, 2009 at 2:41 pm
peter and eduardo and elsa la gorda period 3
i don’t think they broke the law. they just made a better Pc that can run on mac programs. that is good because people can buy a cheaper kind of mac. their just scared that they will lose a lot of money. that is why they sued them for a lot of money. that is what i think about the subject and how i feel.
December 1, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Andres Trevino aka Iceman
4 me i believe that they had a good plan on makin copies of the macs but it eventually backfired on them with caused them 2 get fined n law sued buy customers that have already signed then contract…. I find it that if they signed the contract they would have 2 pay because if they sign it then they noe what they are buying n what is is so they don’t have 2 complain later on that they didn’t noe about the affects of the mac. I say if they signed the contract they got what they deserve cuz if u sign a contract then u noe what it is cuz ur SUPOST 2 read what ur going 2 agree on…..
December 1, 2009 at 2:46 pm
felipe carmona
yeah i think they broke the law cause they tried to make a another type of mac that was already make..
December 1, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Araceli lizarraga
They dont break the law they just made a better pc that can run on mac programs they are just scare that that they would loose.
December 1, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Fernanda Torres
yea i do think they committed a real crime by taking apple’s ideas and making clones of their products and selling them to consumers. i agree with the copyright infringement charges.
December 1, 2009 at 2:50 pm
yasmin
i think they did broke the law why they just keep on with their business. so yes i think they broke the law.
December 1, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Nicole D.C. & Nancy Cruz =)=]
Of course. Sheesh. They are able to sew these people because they are basically copying the same thing. Everything is the same. Even though they said that they bought the OS X Software legally, it’s not right. They had the right to sew. Oh yes.
December 1, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Jose Baeza & Eduardo Arredondo
Yes they have the right to sue them because they copied mac’s computers. And I would do the same thing if they did that to me.
December 1, 2009 at 3:12 pm
vanessa Arriaga
yes i think that Psystar did break the law because if they had said that no one could use Mac OS X in any other regular computer that is not Apple then why did they disobey so yes they did break the law. 🙂
December 1, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Jazmin Gonzalez
I think that Psystar should lost the lawsuit because i do think its illegal they should just run their own programs instead of just installing someone else program into other computers
December 1, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Yvette Aceves
Psystar definitely broke the law because they completely stole Apple’s stuff. Their things look a lot like Apple’s and the system was OS X as well. Taking others software and selling it for less is taking profit from them, which in most cases is illegal!!
December 1, 2009 at 3:17 pm
cynthia Saenz
psystar didn’t do anything wrong the law suit was not necessary. psystar did purchase the software legally and deserve the right to sell their computer’s with the purchased software for a price they wish. =)
December 1, 2009 at 3:18 pm
rubi montez block 3&4
i think that it stupid that there doing that they should late them sale the comptu.’s i mean it not there falit that they can sale the comptu. at a better price. i don’t think that it can be so bad they will just lose some people it not a thing to be fighting about. there is no reason that they shouldn’t sale they comptu.’s
December 1, 2009 at 3:25 pm
norberto ferreira
what i think about this is that i do not believe at all that Psystar had broken the law because not even them but other companies have done the same thing and are still allowed to do it. for example the MAC is able run to windows on their computers and i dont think anyone said anything about it.
December 1, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Berenice Bautista
I think that psystar did a really bad thing by braking the law, beacuse he should never had done that and even though they think they didn’t .. the true is that they did.
December 1, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Luz Lopez
Well I do think that broke the law.
December 1, 2009 at 3:27 pm
JUAN COTA
they did brake the law and it was bad ..they shouldn’t do tHAT
December 1, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Luz Lopez
well i do think that psystar broke the law
December 1, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Stephanie Jasso
i think that psystar company did brake the law because they took the macs ideas to create a computer almost the same as the mac. and if i were part of the mac company i would be pretty mad about it, because i wouldn’t want for other company’s to be taking away my ideas. when they should be working hard on getting their own ideas to create their own unique computer.
December 1, 2009 at 3:41 pm
ADELA RAMIREZ
According to my perspective, Psystar did broke the law by making a similar copyright infringement that Mac company had done. Because you wouldn’t want someone to still your work and all of the sudden the item you just invent someone is just selling it. AND that person who is selling it receives all the profit when you design it.That money that you deserve for all the hard work so is not fair. Therefore once again the company did a bad play by stealing mac idea.
December 1, 2009 at 3:47 pm
bertha perez
soooooo my obenend is Filed under Business AppleYou may have heard of Psystaran infamous manufacturer of Mac clone open computers Theyre best known for frequently getting into legal hot water with Apple over everything from trademarks to copyrights to selling Apples OS X operating on nonApple computers Apple just took Psystar to school on that last issue winning summary judgment in a California court on jajaja
December 1, 2009 at 4:28 pm
juanita
i think MAC! broke the law FIRST cause they DID the same thing WITH windows xp so a MAC user is able to use programs that are meant for windows only so they broke it FIRST!.
December 2, 2009 at 9:43 am
Omar Ruiz
i think that Psystar should not get sued for doing that because they did it legally by purchasing the program and sell it in there own custom pc’s…….didn’t Dell do the same thing out of his dorm.
December 2, 2009 at 9:49 am
Sandra Calderon & Jonathan Lopez
I think that they did brake the law because they are using other peoples’ work.I think that it is not fair to work very hard to create something for someone else to come and use it and sell it for less. I think that they are violating there rights.
December 2, 2009 at 9:51 am
ivan ruiz
I think Apple was acting somewhat hypocritical because they are doing the same thing. I mean, they are complaining that some other company copyrighted their software but Apple is doing the same thing with Windows. In our class most of our computers have the option to start up the computer in either Apple or Windows software. In my opinion that’s unfair and Apple is being a hypocrite because they are not bringing up what they are doing. They should just put up with it because Windows is the doing the same thing with them.
December 2, 2009 at 9:52 am
Luis Regalado
I think that its a good deal for the Psyster computers. Its better to pay $600 than $1,500 for a computer that has the same programs and everything. But I also think that it is wrong to copy from another company like Mac.
December 2, 2009 at 9:53 am
enrique cota
well i think that is cool to have another company that is making the same things as Mac and having the same programs and all those things that the original has. so i think that is good what they are doing for people that can not afford a Mac.
December 2, 2009 at 9:56 am
Elias Mendoza
Well, i think that is not ok, because the first guy work so hard to get the information,and another guy comes and steals it. But if you think about it,.., it cost less than the original mac OS X.
December 2, 2009 at 9:57 am
Gerardo cossio and Guadalupe mora
I think its good in a way for people because they are way cheaper than the 1st MAC they made. Thats why they are suing them because maybe they aren’t good sellers any more as the other company.
December 2, 2009 at 10:00 am
Luis Serrato
I think the psystar is actually a pretty great deal for the people, it’s cheaper and it can save a lot of money. Although at the same, it is taking the business away from the Apple company or Mac company, which is very rude and annoying for them since they came up with all of the program and other companies are just stealing their ideas and selling them for a cheaper price.
December 2, 2009 at 10:08 am
Brenda A.
i think they shouldn’t be sued. i get that it is a clone and it is cheaper…but apple will still get money from the users of the mac clones because mac software updates every year. And if the mac clone users want to get something for their computer they will have to buy it from apple, i mean…its not like they can buy everything from the mac clone creators b/c then that would be infringement/stealing…
December 2, 2009 at 10:12 am
Ivan Alvarado
I think that company has done nothing wrong all they are doing is using the software that they bought from another company. Why is it right that Apple can use Windows on their Macs but when someone else uses their software its wrong for them to use it. If Mac is suing the company then Windows should sue Apple because they are using their software.
December 2, 2009 at 10:13 am
Priscila Pompa and Maria Perez
I personally don’t find anything wrong with this because there are always people trying to find ways to get things cheaper. Yea there’s laws against that but for the most time it will be done. It was wrong for the masterminds of this to yet what can really be done when people have found out about this and will probably keep looking for this product.
December 2, 2009 at 10:13 am
Rogelio Perez
i think that they should be sue because they have the same system and it runs the same and that is copyright witch legally that is wrong. i believe that the mac are losing money by the clone mac and well that is wrong to do so they did good to sue them. they are taking credit
December 2, 2009 at 10:19 am
Miguel Rodriguez
i think that it would be a violation of Apple’s EULA and therefore copyright infringement.
December 2, 2009 at 10:21 am
Estevan Langarica
i would of bolt won but they sold them cheep and they were going for 599 and the apple was not selling that much computers and apple stop psystar buy they not selling no more of there mac-cloner
December 2, 2009 at 10:28 am
Jonathan Lopez & Sandra Calderonon
I think that what psystar did what a cloning of the mac. First of all they copied another’s company idea and that stealing and thats consider crime.
I think that they should get suit for what they did.
December 2, 2009 at 10:55 am
David Quintanilla
I think that psystar broke the law because they didn’t make sure that apple was ok w/ it.
December 2, 2009 at 11:03 am
laura lopez :)
im not sure if they broke the la or not but i think that there is a lot of competition around. i think the company should do something better.
December 2, 2009 at 11:03 am
DANYRA PADILLA
i think that this company broke the law. Well is a good thing for customers but not for the company of mac.
December 2, 2009 at 11:04 am
angelica leon:D
i really don’t get what the problem is but i think that apple has great computers and due to the competition they should come up with something better that is with much more programs.
December 2, 2009 at 11:07 am
Vanessa Gonzalez!
If Psysytar legally bought the software then I don’t think this problem shouldn’t have occurred. Its not that difficult to see that Apple is aware that these computers would have most likely outsold them, so of course they had to take action. All for the money, all the time. Even so, they won and thats that..I would’ve sided with Psystar because of the lower price, even though I do purchase Apple products, and love em’ (: Hehe.. these happenings can be difficult to perceive,rawr.
December 2, 2009 at 11:20 am
eduardo valenzuela-jara
psystar had all the right to install mac into it’s computer, however, it was used for the wrong reasons. PSYSTAR basicly stool macs business by selling it’s on computers with the MAC OSX system. This allowed Apple to take PSystar to court: which mac won.
Though PSystar bought the rights to the system, they used it in an illegal way, that was the down fall of their ‘computer company’.
December 2, 2009 at 11:59 am
Diego Alatorre
Yes, I think the company broke the law because they took Apple’s software
December 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm
cristal gonzales
i don’t really know what to think. I mean, well yeah Apple is kind of right, they made it, why should someone else have the right to sell it waaaaay cheaper?
December 3, 2009 at 9:42 am
Jose Zacarias
I think they did violated apple’s company thats not really a good thing to do.
December 8, 2009 at 1:35 pm
vicky Samano
well it seams that there doing something illigal because there outting softwere in a non mac. they did violate mac as a company
December 8, 2009 at 1:46 pm
robert romero v.
I believe that it is illegal for the reason that company Macintosh isn’t getting any income from the selling of this “Mac Clone” computers. From my point of view i would say that the Mac Clones are a PIRATED VERSION of the original Mac computers.
December 8, 2009 at 1:47 pm
malle10
I think that for us this is a good deal, because we would get computers for less money with the same programs as Mac, but it is not right because Mac is not getting any money for it.
December 8, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Armando MAGALLON {MANDO}
i think that this company broke the law.i think they shouldn’t be sued. i think that this is true because mac came up with the program and they paid a lot of money the other company is making profit from other peoples work.
December 8, 2009 at 2:22 pm
felipe CARMONA
THEY ARE BRAKING THE LAW CAUSE THERE USING THE MAC PROGRAM ON A FAKE MAC KINDA LIKE THE SWATMEET ONE..HA BUT I THINK THAT THEY DID DESERVE TO GET SUED…
December 8, 2009 at 3:16 pm
selene Perez
In my personal opinion i agree with the court for the reason that nobody has the right to take something that you own in which you work hard. In the other hand, Psystar was selling it for a cheaper price than Apple, in which it was a great job for those people who had the chance to buy the Psystar.