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What's even worse that this asshole was legally correct, of course he was, one of the bad laws is the passage of DMCA which bans circumventing digital protectio

by chx 2y ago

What's even worse that this asshole was legally correct, of course he was, one of the bad laws is the passage of DMCA which bans circumventing digital protections. That's how you get bullshit like DVD Jon who was accused of trespassing on his own computer.

matheusmoreira 2y ago
What digital protections did the kid circumvent? As far as I can tell he just dumped the game's graphics and found a previously unknown creature among the results. No circumvention of anything whatsoever, just direct access to the data. If the corporations don't want stuff like this to be found, they should try not putting it into the game in the first place. I guess copyright monopolists who are delusional enough to believe they can publish information world wide and control what happens to it do not have this sort of common sense. For the record, there's an entire website full of people dedicated to doing what that child did: https://tcrf.net/ https://tcrf.net/
- fragmede 2y ago
  it was protected by rot26 encryption!
- mrandish 2y ago
  > What digital protections did the kid circumvent? This was my first thought too. While the entire DMCA is misguided draconian bullshit, I'm having trouble figuring out by what tortured logic dumping an image from a game file would trigger it.
  - gorlilla 2y ago
    It's not like he used inspect element and 'broke' the md5/sha-1 hash.. err I mean "encryption". [0]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726866/missouri-governor-department-elementary-secondary-education-ssn-vulnerability-disclosure https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726866/missouri-govern...
roastedpeacock 2y ago
a) DMCA does not apply the same to all countries b) With the way politics is going in USA I am not optimistic about DMCA reform until the heat-death of the universe.
- chx 2y ago
  I named the DMCA because that was likely to be most recognizable by our most esteemed readers but fine I will elaborate how this shit is everywhere. In December 1996, the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the WIPO Copyright Treaty which is principally aimed at adapting the legal paradigm of copyrights to new technology. Article 11 of the WCT obligates “contracting parties to provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors in connection with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which are not authorized by the authors concerned or permitted by law.”
  - roastedpeacock 2y ago
    > I named the DMCA because that was likely to be most recognizable by our most esteemed readers but fine I will elaborate how this shit is everywhere. Yes. But not all countries interpret the restrictions on fair-use as aggressively as DMCA/1201 does.

by chx 2y ago

matheusmoreira 2y ago

What digital protections did the kid circumvent? As far as I can tell he just dumped the game's graphics and found a previously unknown creature among the results. No circumvention of anything whatsoever, just direct access to the data. If the corporations don't want stuff like this to be found, they should try not putting it into the game in the first place. I guess copyright monopolists who are delusional enough to believe they can publish information world wide and control what happens to it do not have this sort of common sense. For the record, there's an entire website full of people dedicated to doing what that child did: https://tcrf.net/ https://tcrf.net/

fragmede 2y ago
it was protected by rot26 encryption!
mrandish 2y ago
> What digital protections did the kid circumvent? This was my first thought too. While the entire DMCA is misguided draconian bullshit, I'm having trouble figuring out by what tortured logic dumping an image from a game file would trigger it.
- gorlilla 2y ago
  It's not like he used inspect element and 'broke' the md5/sha-1 hash.. err I mean "encryption". [0]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726866/missouri-governor-department-elementary-secondary-education-ssn-vulnerability-disclosure https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726866/missouri-govern...

roastedpeacock 2y ago

a) DMCA does not apply the same to all countries b) With the way politics is going in USA I am not optimistic about DMCA reform until the heat-death of the universe.

chx 2y ago
I named the DMCA because that was likely to be most recognizable by our most esteemed readers but fine I will elaborate how this shit is everywhere. In December 1996, the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the WIPO Copyright Treaty which is principally aimed at adapting the legal paradigm of copyrights to new technology. Article 11 of the WCT obligates “contracting parties to provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors in connection with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which are not authorized by the authors concerned or permitted by law.”
- roastedpeacock 2y ago
  > I named the DMCA because that was likely to be most recognizable by our most esteemed readers but fine I will elaborate how this shit is everywhere. Yes. But not all countries interpret the restrictions on fair-use as aggressively as DMCA/1201 does.