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> making it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak, and modify American products and services Is anywhere in EU reverse-engineering, jailbreaking, and modifying
by krzyk 1y ago
> making it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak, and modify American products and services
Is anywhere in EU reverse-engineering, jailbreaking, and modifying any products illegal?
- Mindwipe 1y agoEvery country has an anti-circumvention law in the EU. It is a condition of membership. Not that that makes Doctorow's argument any better or make any more sense.
- krzyk 1y ago(all below - IANAL) Strange, my country (Poland) has a law that allows reverse engineering to allow given software to work on given hardware. If (and only if) consumer has bought given software. So e.g. I could reverse engineer MS Word to make it work on Linux and that is within my legal right, any EULA prohibiting that is void. Same probably applies for jailbreaking - all withing legal right of customer. I think there is something in EU law also about that, considering SAS Institute Inc. versus World Programming Ltd.