Apple said it’s calling off the dogs because it no longer uses the software code that was the subject of the online discussion, according to a July 8 letter the company sent to BluWiki’s pro bono lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
But EFF lawyer Fred von Lohmann claimed victory, saying that Apple had backed off of overreaching legal claims it made in a November takedown notice it sent to BluWiki. Apple’s lawyers at O’Melveny & Myers charged that posts on the site, which included reverse engineering of Apple’s iTunes software, were a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s anti-circumvention measures.
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