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Toronto – Monday in San Francisco, Odioworks and Electronic Frontier Foundation has a law suit filed against Apple, since Apple demanded and forced Odioworks to remove a discussion forum off of BluWiki site that pertained information on making iPhones, and iPods more interoperable.

The thread written by users of Bluewiki were discussing methods and strategies for the iPhones and iPods to work with software and music files that are not Apple based.

It was said that the users that posted the information didn’t even succeed in actually figuring out how to hack the device to interact the non Apple files and software.

The basis of the lawsuit is from the threat letters that the legal department from Apple had sent in November 2008 to Odioworks. The letters were claiming that the discussion was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
According to Electronic Frontier Foundation they want the San Francisco federal court to give Odioworks the right to restore the informational forum.

The owner of Odioworks, Sam Odio states that Apple has no right to be able to make legal threats against the services like BluWiki that hosts the forum.

Fred Von Lohmann, the senior staff attorney noted that it is legal to discuss interests in revere engineering and it is legal for BluWiki to host these type of discussions.

Odioworks is seeking for a declaratory judgement stating that the information about iTunes DB doesn’t constitute copyright infringement and they don’t illegally violate any of the DMCA’S provisions for anticircumvention.

Odioworks is arguing the point that the code that was posted on iTunesDB is fair to use.

Electronic Frontier Foundation and Odioworks are seeking for a ruling that states that the users on the site have every right to post that information in accordance to the act of free speech. Just as there is posting information on how to make a firecracker it doesn’t make them a terriorist, nor does posting discussions on figuring out how to post other software on Apple’s iPhone and iPod, make one a hacker according to OdioWorks.