Wiki Operator OdioWorks Sues Apple Over Alleged Legal Threats

San Francisco -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a San Francisco-based digital civil liberties group, said that it has filed suit against Cupertino-based Apple for allegedly demanding that the operator of a collaborative "wiki" site called BluWiki remove user-generated content about ways to make iPods and iPhones interoperate with software other than iTunes. The site's owner, OdioWorks, filed suit earlier this week in San Francisco, looking to restore the content. Apple argues that the discussions violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it a crime to circumvent copy-protection security measures. "Apple's legal threats against BluWiki are about censorship, not about protecting their legitimate copyright interests," said Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney for the EFF. "It's legal to engage in reverse engineering in order to create a competing product, it's legal to talk about reverse engineering, and it's legal for a public wiki to host those discussions."
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/27 
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/odio_v_apple/Final%20Complaint.pdf (PDF)