Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

[Thufir Hawat]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:41:47 -0500, amicus_curious wrote:


> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:aXVpl.58231$6r1.31457@newsfe19.iad...
>> amicus_curious wrote:
>>> Well, the link resolves to downloads.verizon.net and that is most
>>> certainly a Verizon site.
>>
>> You cannot know from the outside what the Verizon webserver is doing
>> when it processes the "actiontec gateway" URL, because a webserver is a
>> general purpose program which may take arbitrary action based on the
>> form of the URL.
>>
> Well you can try the link and see where you end up, eh?  The firmware
> update link resolves on the Verizon site, downloads.Verizon.net.  Have
> you not tried it yourself?  Are you afraid to do so?



Nothing you've written demonstrates that the files are stored on Verizon 
hardware.



-Thufir