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Apple blocked Beeper Mini’s iMessage Android app, but Beeper will keep pushing (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Apple blocked Beeper Mini’s iMessage Android app, but Beeper will keep pushing::Co-founder denies Apple's claims of security and privacy concerns for its users.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lawsuit from who?

Apple preventing a third party from granting unauthorized access to their servers?

Or Beeper for attempting something that is protected by the DMCA?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

that is protected by the DMCA?

Reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is legal under DMCA.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

TIL, that is very neat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Which is exactly what they've done.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That particular defense has historically been a little shaky. That said since it's a corporation that would be using it in this case instead of some random hacker (in the MIT sense) or Chinese company it would have a better chance of holding up in court.

I'm betting though that Apple won't even bother with trying a DMCA based suit, but rather will argue some kind of TOS violations.