Never reveal flaws in our laptops
M'LEARNED friends acting for Apple are hassling the website SomethingAwful.com for daring to run a posting which said that Jobs' Mob had put too much thermal insulation paste in its MacBook Pro.
The story, which we covered
here, was posted by Interrupting Moss
here.
It purported to show how his MacBook Pro was overheating due to Apple engineers failing to apply thermal grease. The posting, which includes pictures, shows MacBook Pro users how to fix the problem.
The article also linked to the Apple Service Manual, to help people get inside their computer and this is what Apple legal found so offensive.
According to Something Awful an email from Apple claims that linking to the manual was an infringement of Apple's copyright.
It threatened to lean on somethingawful's ISP if its demands were not met. Somethingawful's webmaster said that nothing was hosted on his company's servers and all it had was a link going to somebody else's webspace.
"I guess Apple has no clue how the Internet even works; they should be threatening to sue the ISP hosting the horribly illegal service manual, not some guy who runs a forum where his forum members are TRYING TO HELP people fix issues with their faulty Apple computers."
He wrote back to Apple and told them to go forth and multiply, and got a standard email back. One thing that he noticed from the headers was that Apple's legal department are using Microsoft Entourage.
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