Apple asks court for big damage award, end of cloning
In the wake of federal judge’s summary judgment in their favor, Apple’s legal beagles have now filed motions requesting that PsyStar be permanently barred from cloning Macs and pay $2.1 million. Perhaps this will be the final chapter in this nearly two-year-long soap opera.
CIO Today reports that lawyers for Apple have filed court documents requesting that Judge William Alsup bar PsyStar from ever cloning the Mac ever again and paying a damages of $2.1 million, a sum that would kill off the Miami, Florida-based upstart.
“Psystar’s whole business is premised on stealing from Apple,” the motion reads. “Psystar pirates Apple’s software, circumvents Apple’s technological protection measures, and illegally benefits from the goodwill and reputation Apple has built. Psystar’s conduct, if permitted to continue, will both tarnish Apple’s reputation for excellence and lead to the proliferation of copycats who also will free ride on Apple’s investments, infringe Apple’s intellectual property rights, and cause further irreparable injury.”
Judge Alsup surprised many on November 14 with the completeness in which he ruled in Apple’s favor in response to both company’s requests for summary judgement. If he likewise grants these latest motions for Apple, PsyStar will likely cease to exist.
Here’s hoping this sad chain of events finally comes to an end…
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November 26th, 2009
I have to say I’m happy about this. Although many Apple products are a bit expensive you do get what you pay for hands down. And for a company to go and pirate a system and exploit the hard work of programmers and designers is outrageous.
Keep pushing on Apple
November 26th, 2009
Whichever side of the fence you sit on when it comes to the argument as to whether Apple products are worth the money or good at all, I think you have to agree that this would be the correct decision. Sure, its a pain that you can’t install Apple software on other machines, but that’s how they maintain high quality and that’s their rules. Apple sets the rules and whether you love them or hate them, you should abide by the rules they set for their products when it comes to selling them commercially, and Pystar have had this coming for a long time. You can’t just rip off somebody else’s intellectual property and claim that you are in the right – if anything they should’ve taken a lawsuit to Apple BEFORE they started producing Mac clones, if they felt so strongly that the EULA was against copyright laws.