Psystar just got what's coming to them in the California case. Here's the order [PDF]. It's a total massacre. Psystar's first-sale defense went down in flames. Apple's motion for summary judgment on copyright infringement and DMCA violation is granted.

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The latest filings on apple vs psystar from groklaw

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We are pleased to announce that an agreement with Apple's counsel was reached earlier this month and we now have the final list of their deponents for our proposed topics with respect to this litigation.

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Unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Florida, temporarily slowing down Apple's legal case against it.

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In particular, Apple attorney James Gilliland said that despite "numerous meet and confer sessions," Psystar "has produced no monthly profit and loss statement, balance sheets or other financial statements and only a small subset of revenue and cost-related receipts.

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Today, the essential question regarding Psystar is unchanged: does the company have the right to sell computers with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, as it has been doing since April 14, 2008?

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But Alsup was not convinced. He rejected Psystar's argument that the relevant market in this case consisted of a single product: Mac OS.

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A California judge on Tuesday granted Apple's motion to dismiss counterclaims on the part of unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar, who charged the Mac maker with violating antitrust laws through its vigorous attempts to block third parties from selling rival Mac OS X-based comput …

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"Attorneys for Apple and Psystar sparred before a U.S.

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"Shrugging off its ongoing legal dispute with Apple, unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar this week trounced Apple, introducing OS X-compatible PCs with Blu-ray drives and the Nvidia 9800GT graphics card. Apple offers neither peripheral on a Mac.

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Psystar's response to the initial apple complaint...

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When Psystar responded to Apple's OpenComputer lawsuit last week, it came out that the company had retained law firm Carr & Ferrell LLP to defend it.

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"This case has been mischaracterized," said Springer. "There are a lot more complicated issues than just copyright or trademark. There are more complex issues [than those] in respect to the end-user licensing agreement. And antitrust issues come into play, too."

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Note: 99% of what you will read about this will come from uninformed non-lawyers (myself included) with a strongly-held opinion on one side of the debate or the other.

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"Apple Inc. has sued Psystar Corp., the computer maker that in April started selling Intel-based systems with Mac OS X pre-installed, for copyright and software licensing violations, according to court records and a Florida attorney.

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Apple Inc. is fed up with a small Florida-based firm that has been selling its own brand of computers running hacked versions of the Mac OS X operating system and has finally slapped the company with a lawsuit.

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Apple has sued Psystar, the company that for months has been selling the Open Computer, a Mac clone.

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We found, however, that we were unable to boot the Open Computer into FireWire Target disk mode. The tech support person didn't think that Psystar offered that feature.

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Engadget NYC might have gotten to play with Apple's latest and greatest iMac yesterday, but we keep it dirty in the Chi -- yep, we've got the first Psystar Open Computer shipped out for review.

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Reader Patrick sent us these photos of his Psystar machine, which was captured in video earlier today. Here's what these photos tell us.

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Psystar the Martyr: Deconstructing ITWorld's call for Apple to license OS X

The Psystar comedy-fest continues, except today it isn't Psystar causing laughs -- it's the exquisitely-designed ITWorld website. Don Reisinger wrote a lovely piece today arguing that "small, defiant" Psystar will force Apple to license OS X.

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Apple being challenged by startup - The end result? Massive shift in the computing world.

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How's this for a deal. At a fraction of the cost of a comparably equipped machine from Apple, a Web-based company dubbed Psystar is offering a computer you can have loaded up with just about any operating system you choose, including Apple's OS X Leopard.

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Tired of waiting and hoping for the Mac of my dreams to appear, I decided to take the technology into my own hands and build it myself. And thus began my experiment to assemble my very own OS X-running machine.

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The big little frenzy over a little company in Miami that makes or claims to make an Apple-like computer -- and whether we can harness that level of intense participation by ordinary people into reporting on the story, into covering the local news scene to fulfill the potential o …

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