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Apple heavies Mail Stamps developer

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Andrew Escobar, the developer of Mail Stamps and Front Row Enabler (a hack to install Front Row on any Mac running 10.4.5) has received a letter from Apple alleging that he is violating Apple’s trademarks and copyright.

According to MacNN , the letter says in part:

Your use of Apple’s trademarks and copyrighted materials violates Apple’s intellectual property rights, which Apple has an affirmative obligation to protect. Apple therefore must insist that you cease use of Apple’s trademarks and copyrighted images and that you stop offering the unauthorized downloads of Apple’s Front Row software.

It is not clear to me from this or from the post on Andrew’s site (currently down), whether Mail Stamps is really in the firing line, or whether Apple’s concerns are restricted to Front Row Enabler.mail stamps, Andrew Escobar, front row, apple, legal demands, plugins, mail.app, apple mail

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12 Responses to “Apple heavies Mail Stamps developer”

  1. danbee says:
    March 14th, 2006 at 5:03 am

    His site has been down for me for the last 2-3 days. Is he actually offline now or is it just me? I really want to get hold of Mail Stamps.

  2. Tim says:
    March 14th, 2006 at 7:44 am

    He’s offline and not answering emails either. Understandably, I guess.

  3. Brady J. Frey says:
    March 14th, 2006 at 9:42 am

    I have no one to blame but myself, but while I’m in love with his mail stamps, his frontrow enabler destroyed my Tiger — going through the system logs, I’m going to have to rebuild here. I have corrupted commands and menu bars… ouch…

  4. Tim says:
    March 14th, 2006 at 10:18 am

    Bummer. That sounds bad :(

  5. Brady J. Frey says:
    March 14th, 2006 at 12:58 pm

    FYI, a tutorial for removal as needed:
    http://mactrix.blogspot.com/2006/03/front-row-enabler-update.html

    But I had to clean install vs combo update anyhow.

    I think they’re targeting his front row, I’m sure — it’s side swiping their new intel machines, though front row runs poor on anything but my dual G5 tower.

  6. danbee says:
    March 17th, 2006 at 9:18 pm

    Had similar problems with Front Row myself. That’s what you get for hacking it in I guess!

    I don’t suppose anybody reading this has a copy of Mail Stamps they would be willing to email me? My email address isn’t hard to work out. Tah in advance.

  7. Brady J. Frey says:
    March 18th, 2006 at 3:19 am

    doing a system update of the last full combo update fixed it for me:)

    I don’t see an about page on your site, where would anyone find an email address if that’s what they wanted to do?

  8. danbee says:
    March 18th, 2006 at 3:49 am

    Well most email address are a combination of a name and a domain name, so you could try sticking those together ;). I just wanted to avoid publishing anything remotely emaily, as I’m sure the harvesting bots may be getting wise to the usual obfuscation methods.

  9. Tim says:
    March 18th, 2006 at 8:26 am

    Since I can actually see what it is in the system, I guess I should do something about it.

  10. Brady J. Frey says:
    March 18th, 2006 at 8:31 am

    too late!

  11. Tim says:
    March 18th, 2006 at 8:50 am

    Oh, well. I guess you can never get enough of a good thing ;-)

  12. Akira says:
    March 18th, 2006 at 3:13 pm

    Would love to get hold of Mail Stamps 2 but his site is unaccessable now. Anyone has any idea where else I can get hold of the installer?

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