80bower writes "Looks like Microsoft is going to allow an MIT student to display security flaws in the XBOX and won't use the DMCA to stop him. Read about it at EFF via Politech." Microsoft deserves kudos for this. But it is a sad state of affairs when people deserve kudos for NOT doing things.
Re:bad juju
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good-n-nappy
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There is precedent for that kind of behavior. In the past companies have used the patent system to do it. For example, several printer companies filed design patents on the shape of their ink cartridges so they could have a little monopoly.
When one of these cases came to trial, the court ruled against this kind of use of design patents. Here's a link to the case. The company in the case was Epson.
I think MS would eventually lose in court if they tried to use the DMCA like that (who knows how long it could take though). Plus it would be terrible PR for MS since everyone is already screaming monopoly.
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Re:Slashdot is in a sad state of affairs
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jpmorgan
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The DMCA outlaws the circumenvtion of copyright protection mechanisms, which is what the MIT hacker did. So the DMCA outlaws exactly that.
Re:Anything to do with the Australian MOD Chip cas
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Doctor-T
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Down here in Australia, our consumer protection board are investigating region-encoding to determine whether its legal. If they decide its not, all Aust. DVD players will have to be region-free.
Re:Mac OS X is not UNIX�
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moof1138
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Re:XBox is XCrappy. MS did it again, NCAA 2003 cra
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Anonymous Coward
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It's not just the Xbox, it's been crashing on all three systems. And this is the first game for you to crash? Did you have a NES? No game out is crash proof, don't blame it on M$.
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There is precedent for that kind of behavior. In the past companies have used the patent system to do it. For example, several printer companies filed design patents on the shape of their ink cartridges so they could have a little monopoly.
When one of these cases came to trial, the court ruled against this kind of use of design patents. Here's a link to the case. The company in the case was Epson.
I think MS would eventually lose in court if they tried to use the DMCA like that (who knows how long it could take though). Plus it would be terrible PR for MS since everyone is already screaming monopoly.
Never underestimate the power of fiber.
The DMCA outlaws the circumenvtion of copyright protection mechanisms, which is what the MIT hacker did. So the DMCA outlaws exactly that.
Down here in Australia, our consumer protection board are investigating region-encoding to determine whether its legal. If they decide its not, all Aust. DVD players will have to be region-free.
The Open Group has loosened up with the UNIX trademark as time has gone on, and do include Apple as a vendor complaint to the UNIX specification.http://www.unix-systems.org/what_is_ unix/single_unix_specification.html#platform
Mac OS X is UNIX.
Hyperbole is the worst thing ever.
It's not just the Xbox, it's been crashing on all three systems. And this is the first game for you to crash? Did you have a NES? No game out is crash proof, don't blame it on M$.
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