Apple issues Cease and Desist for iTunes database analysis

Amazing though the iPhone/iPod touch platform may be, its hardly what you’d call “open.” Apple’s been a total control freak about what applications can be installed on it, and every piece of music, software, and video that goes on its new gadget has to do so through iTunes. But some iPod users have been analyzing the the database that each iPod generates as a way to sync to it using other software. Apple, of course, doesn’t want that to happen, and now they’ve issued a Cease and Desist order under the reviled DMCA to prevent users from collaborating on a wiki.

The Electronic Frontiers Foundation reports…