> On November 13, 2009, the court granted Apple's motion for summary judgement and found Apple's copyrights were violated as well as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) when Psystar installed Apple's operating system on non-Apple computers.
Besides the copyright violation, it is very important to note that the court also considered that circumventing the hardware checks were a violation of the DMCA and illegal in and of itself.
Apple doesn't do anything about the hackintosh ""community"" because they simply don't care about a bunch of random nerds in their basement running macOS but the moment a corporation starts using it to replace their macs you can bet they're going to be sued to oblivion. Not that it would ever happen, hackintosh are going to prove a complete dead end once Apple drops support for x86.
We live in a post-DMCA world. This isn't the era that allowed Bleem to win against Sony, and this is the era that saw the switch emulator developers shit their pants and promise millions to Nintendo in a settlement because they were very unconfident in the possibility of winning in a trial. NVIDIA, for better or worse, has a strong legal standing to clamp down on people who think it would be funny to run their libraries on non-NVIDIA hardware. Do it in your basement if you will, but don't try to push this in a data center.
You can't shut down the tools themselves, but you can shut down their use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
> On November 13, 2009, the court granted Apple's motion for summary judgement and found Apple's copyrights were violated as well as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) when Psystar installed Apple's operating system on non-Apple computers.
Besides the copyright violation, it is very important to note that the court also considered that circumventing the hardware checks were a violation of the DMCA and illegal in and of itself.
Apple doesn't do anything about the hackintosh ""community"" because they simply don't care about a bunch of random nerds in their basement running macOS but the moment a corporation starts using it to replace their macs you can bet they're going to be sued to oblivion. Not that it would ever happen, hackintosh are going to prove a complete dead end once Apple drops support for x86.
We live in a post-DMCA world. This isn't the era that allowed Bleem to win against Sony, and this is the era that saw the switch emulator developers shit their pants and promise millions to Nintendo in a settlement because they were very unconfident in the possibility of winning in a trial. NVIDIA, for better or worse, has a strong legal standing to clamp down on people who think it would be funny to run their libraries on non-NVIDIA hardware. Do it in your basement if you will, but don't try to push this in a data center.