Re: Helping Apple get iPod hearing protection right ("J. Scott Merritt" )


Subject: Re: Helping Apple get iPod hearing protection right
From:    "J. Scott Merritt"  <merrij3@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:42:31 -0500

Laszlo, I have no specific knowledge of the law, but I am a parent of a child in the USA with an IPod ... It is inconceivable to me that there would be any legal impediment in the USA to a parent utilizing a "volume lock" to protect their child's hearing (assuming that said child is under 18 years of age). In fact, the governement has gone to considerable effort to support a "V-Chip" in televisions to allow more parental control over viewing choices made by their children. >From a practical standpoint, I reckon it is much more likely that the children will "outsmart" the parents and develop methods of defeating the volume lock ... Best regards, Scott. On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:36:34 +0200 Toth Laszlo <tothl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Hungarian Academy of Sciences * > Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins > e-mail: tothl@xxxxxxxx * when you stop trying" > http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl * >


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