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Serial Cables Illegal Due to DMCA?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bad-cable-no-cookie dept.

Colin McMillen writes "I've recently had an interesting run-in with the DMCA... apparently, US Customs has rejected entry of a PC<->Sega Dreamcast serial cable into the US, supposedly due to copyright violations. This cable was to be used for Dreamcast programming for the Real-Time Systems class offered at my university. This seems to be a clear case of the DMCA abridging a perfectly valid educational use of a perfectly legal piece of hardware."

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  1. -1, dump it by wiredog · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This has already appeared on the Other Site.

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