DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers

boijames writes "In the latest bit of DMCA lunacy, copyright guru David Nimmer turned me onto a case that his firm is defending, where a garage door opener company (The Chamberlain Group) has leveled a DMCA claim (among other claims) against the maker of universal garage door remotes (Skylink)."

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unfortunately

[exspecto]

i actually read(well, skimmed) the summary judgement paper for the case. the device does circumvent an encryption based routine. the intent of the original manufacturers was to keep criminals from "sniffing" the transmissions, and therefore to keep them from breaking into your garage and stealing your pinto. it's a good thing. making a device that allows anyone to come up to YOUR garage and open it is bad. and although i am against the DMCA, this case will be pretty simple as far as the letter of the law is concerned.

this would be like having a key that doesn't need to fit your actual lock. i doubt anyone would HONESTLY want the general public to have this.

i feel so dirty for agreeing with the prosecutors...so so dirty.

TV remotes will be next

[Cockney]

Think of all those all-in-one remotes which 'learn' the codes from the existing remotes. Surely they're breaking the DMCA.

universal tv remotes next?

[gyratedotorg]

ridiculous. how long til the dmca is used in an attempt to halt production of universal tv remote controls?