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From Macintouch comes news of the EFF’s sample legal complaint against Apple, Toshiba, CNET for supporting copyright infringement.

Thus there can be no doubt that Apple materially relies on illegal infringement by its customers to support the commercial viability of its iPod and to maintain its high price in the marketplace.

The complaint is not real. It simply demonstrates the threat. Could the big music companies really make iPods and small disk drives and hardware reviews illegal? Under the INDUCE Act, it could happen.

At all times relevant to this complaint, Defendant Toshiba knew or should have known that Apple’s iPod would be used to induce infringement.

There’s a nice take-action site here: Save the iPod, Stop the INDUCE Act.

(It’s a new trend — enacting legislation to prevent technical progress. See the recent GMail privacy laws story for more.)