Comments on: Hack The AppleTV And Get Locked Out

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:08:55 +0000

I think this is probably more along the lines of automated cron jobs running cleanup/permissions repair. Someone needs to look into what the AppleTV does for self maintenance before pointing the finger at apple. As tom said, Apple’s never been the kind to do what everyone’s accusing them of.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:23 +0000

I’m sure this is nothing. Apple has never done any kind of invasive piracy “protection” before, a la Microsoft.

Jobs seems to understand that no piracy protection can possibly be effective, and its better to just trust your customer.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:12:53 +0000

I’m holding out for XMBC to be ported so that none of these surprises arise.

Ironic that Apple would be locking out some of its hacked units whereas Apple started out as a hack from two lads in a garage..

Apple you never cease to dissapoint us..

By: phantomdata

phantomdata — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:57:00 +0000

It’s an easy answer as to why Apple doesn’t want you fooling around… when the Apple TV 2.0 comes out with 1 new feature, they want to force you to buy it instead of download something from the internet for free.

By: GadgetDon

GadgetDon — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:43:04 +0000

Actually, if you read the comments, most people are thinking that it’s some sort of cron job that periodically repairs what looks like damage.

I suspect someone in the next week or so will figure out what it uses to determine a “damaged” file and find a way to mark the changes as proper.

Someone else will probably find a way to disable the auto-repairs. And then scream about lousy quality control if problems slip in.