Comment by commandersaki
3 months 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.
3 months 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.
They 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.
Yeah 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.
Seems like they should release the fix on a Hong Kong server.
Doesn't it just affect US citizens?
The 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.
In 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.
Canada and Mexico too thanks to CUSMA.
In light of the ongoing trade war, I think Canada should just tear up this agreement.
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IANAA.