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I recall Louis saying that some (or all?) solutions to these bounties cannot be revealed to the public due to being liable under DMCA circumvention measures. IA
by commandersaki 1y ago
I recall Louis saying that some (or all?) solutions to these bounties cannot be revealed to the public due to being liable under DMCA circumvention measures. IANAL.
- scotty79 1y agoDoesn't it just affect US citizens?
- keybored 1y agoIANAA.
- _whiteCaps_ 1y agoCanada and Mexico too thanks to CUSMA.
- AlexandrB 1y agoIn light of the ongoing trade war, I think Canada should just tear up this agreement.
- nerdsniper 1y agoI’d vote for that.
- Refreeze5224 1y agoThe US has successfully bullied many countries around the world to adopt their same insane IP laws, at the cost of cancelling trade agreements with those countries if they don't comply. So no, it affects many countries.
- fulafel 1y agoIn fact the first DeCSS trial was in Norway. Which started the whole internet wide civil disobedience campaign of mirroring it, putting it in haikus and t-shirts, etc.
- polski-g 1y agoSeems like they should release the fix on a Hong Kong server.
- razighter777 1y agoThey can be revealed volunarily by the author, but FULU can't require or condone it. Because of the DMCA section 1201, trafficking in circumvention tools to violate digital locks is a felony punishable by 3-5 years in federal prison.
- commandersaki 1y agoYeah maybe this would be an exception since patching firmware to disable ads probably doesn't constitute circumventing digital locks, unless in the process of doing so they do.