Sep 14, 2008 04:23
theodp writes "Nicholas Carr is not pleased that Apple has applied for a patent to extend DRM to tennis shoes and other articles of clothing. Apple apparently views tennis-shoe DRM as a way to head off a potential plague of sneaker hacking. 'Some people,' the patent application observes, 'have taken it upon themselves to remove the sensor from the special pocket of the iPod-linked Nike shoe and place it at inappropriate locations shoelaces, for example or place it on non-Nike model shoes.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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