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You do not get to break the law just because you are working around some sort of restriction. The law says what it says and the judge is correct that IA violate
by pie_flavor 2y ago
You do not get to break the law just because you are working around some sort of restriction. The law says what it says and the judge is correct that IA violated it.
- Y_Y 2y agoc.f. https://ifixit.com/News/54317/section-1201-exemptions-for-2021-repair-consoles-medical-devices https://ifixit.com/News/54317/section-1201-exemptions-for-20... Different laws may be in conflict, and you have to resolve it one way or the other. For example if copyright law would prevent you from repairing your device (like you need to put a coprighted image of an Xbox logo on your hard disk for it to be recognised) then your repair right may trump the distribution rights of the copyright owner.
- pie_flavor 2y agoYour link isn't a judgment about the law. It is the copyright office inventing an exception to the law, as the law explicitly permits it to do, and as it does conservatively and rarely. This did not happen for CDL. There's no conflict here. There is plain comprehensible law and IA plainly and comprehensibly violated it. They could have waited for an exception from the copyright office. They did not. Although none would have come.
- account42 2y agoCopyright law is also already an infringement of your right to free speech and the constitution only allows coypright and similar restrictions under very limited conditions, which can be argued are not respected by current copyright laws.