Comments on: Electronics Manufacturers Use US Legal System to Thwart Hardware ‘Hacks’

By: IP Brief » Blog Archive » Patent and Reverse Engineering by Consumers: What Is the Permitted Line of Fair Use?

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:04:21 +0000

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By: Gabriel Smith

Gabriel Smith — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:41:17 +0000

http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/freedom1.html

By: Gabriel Smith

Gabriel Smith — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:40:23 +0000

I bring forth my testimony about this debate. Three times, my computer was hacked into and made me upset because those people can get away with this game they play on us to take the advantage of us. If you want a good article about the First Ammendment, here it is. It is important because it provides a strict, technical list to the exception to the freedom of speech. It is also important because of the fact that some terrorists might be actual citizens of the United States. Are you willing to let them preach?

This is the site.

By: Bob Loblaw

Bob Loblaw — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:15:10 +0000

“In the cases where users own their cable modems, they’re sold with a licence agreement that prohibits reverse engineering.” – I did not sign any such agreement and neither would I ever agree to such a rediculous agreement. The wall of BS will come crashing down soon if it isn’t already. Unless the manufacturers start setting up lease shops (instead of retail stores), I don’t see that they are on any solid legal ground to stop me from doing what I want with MY purchased objects. What’s next, the sofa company hands out a EULA stating you can never reapholster your sofa or use the wood in it to make something else?

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Links 10/3/2010: Fedora 13 Alpha, Freescale+Linux | Boycott Novell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:27:45 +0000

[...] Electronics Manufacturers Use US Legal System to Thwart Hardware ‘Hacks’ In the United States, the First Amendment in the US Constitution protects free speech, even if the information communicated can be used to, among other things, cause harm or to commit illegal acts. These laws, for example, allowed author William Powell to write and publish “The Anarchist Cookbook,” which gave instructions about how to make bombs and to commit other acts of mayhem in the early 1970s. Communicating how to hack OEMs devices and even how to steal services is thus protected under First Amendment laws, said Fred von Lohmann, staff attorney for the EFF. [...]

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I've Got My Mind Made Up | The Pearls of Wisdom Digest — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:38:04 +0000

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