Re: Helping Apple get iPod hearing protection right (Toth Laszlo )

Subject: Re: Helping Apple get iPod hearing protection right
From:    Toth Laszlo  <tothl@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:36:34 +0200

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, lazzaro wrote:

> 	Apple released a software update
> today for iPods, that lets users set a
> maximum dB level for the device, and
> lets parents lockdown the maximum dB level
> of their children's iPod with a combination
> lock.
> 	While of course legal considerations
> were a factor here,

I know it's not "auditory", but the legal considerations really sound
interesting to me. Do parents have the right to do that in a country like
the USA??

               Laszlo Toth
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