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Prosecutors seek to block Xbox hacking pioneer from mod-chip trial
- jrockway 16y agoYou know the law is fucked up when someone refuses to publish a book that tells the reader how to solder an LED to a device he owns.
- jcl 16y agoI don't think the LED chapter is the one that the publishers were concerned about. Other chapters include "Reverse Engineering Xbox Security" and "Sneaking in the Back Door", as well as a chapter on legal implications.
- VladRussian 16y ago>to a device he owns that small detail is easily correctable. Like in the recent court case about reselling of Adobe software, it looks more and more like "licensed to own". Even if you still own hardware, the software inside it, like BIOS flash may happened to be just "licensed" to you.
- xxpor 16y agoWhat the hell? Fair use isn't a defense? Land of the free my ass. More like land of the almighty $.
- eli 16y agoBut that's not what the DMCA says. I'm not sure, "I disagree with the law" is a valid defense for breaking it.
- imd 16y ago“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right” — Thoreau, _Civil Disobedience_ (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_%28Thoreau%29 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Civil_Disobed...)
- chc 16y agoUnfortunately, the courts only deal with the law not the right.