Wired removed hackintosh video tutorial

Today, the influential magazine Wired was forced to remove from its website a video with a step-by-step guide for installing Mac OS X on third-party laptops. This was done after receiving a complaint from Apple. The parties decided not to bring the case to court, so the editors of Wired simply removed the video. Interestingly, the text support of the whole process of creating “hackintosh” remained there (apparently, Apple’s complaint dealt only with the video, and the journalists from Wired pretended to be formalists).

A small scandal has already erupted around this story. It was started by the author of the video, freelance writer of Wired, Brian Chan. He tweeted that "Apple sued Wired because of my video."



In general, this is an interesting case, because the practice of computer journalism permits the publication of technologies and methods, and even instructions, with the help of which you can clearly break the law (this is why the text-instruction remained on the site). The fact of the publication of such materials does not violate the law, as long as the crime is not carried out de facto. The problem with the video is that there the “criminal” process is carried out clearly. Although, again, this is a controversial question (after all, the matter did not come to court, so we don’t know the answer to it).
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via Cnet