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T. Austin Brown

@neil literally a crime in the USA, though.

6 January at 16:24 | Wall-to-wall | Open on esq.social
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Neil Brown

@AustinB A crime to flash a device that you own?! What offence?

6 January at 16:29 | Open on mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
@krisnelson@legal.social

@neil @AustinB in the US, I guess that might run afoul of the “circumvention” provision of the DMCA?

In the UK, or course, promoting open-source device flashing would be a violation of common-law blasphemy (tho fortunately that seem to have been abolished everywhere in the UK except NI--whew)

6 January at 16:49 | Open on legal.social
Neil Brown

@krisnelson @AustinB It is not to allow access to a copyright work protected by DRM though? It is to run your own software on the hardware you have bought.

6 January at 16:53 | Open on mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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