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Oh, not in the America of the DMCA, Washington WA Wash.. Apple has engineered the new iPod Shuffle so that the replacement headphones won't work unless they have built into them an "authentication chip" the headphone maker can get only from Apple. Wyoming WY Wyo., Now the headphone maker is prohibited by law from trying to figure out what the "authentication chip" does so it can make headphones you can just plug into the Shuffle without, in essence, asking Apple's permission and paying Apple money, Osta viagra online. So Apple winds up controlling the headphone market.

A classic case of copyright law being put to a use that has nothing at all to do with the protection of books or music or images -- just to kill competition, to the advantage of one company and to the plain disadvantage of the public.

Thanks to Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for raising a stink.

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