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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."

3 of 427 comments (clear)

  1. hard to make? by jonestor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How hard are these cables to make?

    Can you make your own?

  2. Also on Kuro5hin.org by dreadpiratemark · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You can read and comment about DC Serial cables vs. DMCA here on /. or do the same thing with the existing thread at kuro5hin.org. I'm glad to see that he's working hard to get his story publicized!

    Mark

  3. What are you doing?! by quantaman · · Score: 2, Redundant

    CmdrTaco you just proposed and she said YES!!! What are you doing still at work?!? Go out and party!!!!!!

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    I stole this Sig