[Infowarrior] - Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP

[Richard Forno]

Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP

Posted Sep 25th 2007 11:15PM by Mike Schramm

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Hacks, Apple

Yesterday, Erica posted in her state of the iPod touch jailbreak that 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!).

Despite what we've heard before, clearly they are very, very interested in
making sure the iPod touch doesn't get hacked. Martyn tells me, as has
Erica, that Apple has clearly gone out of their way to keep hackers out of
their latest iPod. We're also told that progress continues despite all that,
but Apple is apparently bending over backwards to do everything they can to
keep the iPod touch closed.

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