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StorageTek Blocks 3rd Party Maintenance with DMCA
bstone writes "According to LawGeek, a district court in Boston has used the DMCA to grant a preliminary injunction against a third party service vendor who tried to fix StorageTek tape library backup systems. The court found that third party service techs who used the 'Maintenance Key' without StorageTek's permission 'circumvented' to gain access to the copyrighted code in violation of the DMCA, even though they had the explicit permission of the purchasers to fix their machines."
ya first post mod me down
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This is just abuse of the DCMA! By the way, frosty post!
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Yep, and as the libertarian candidate will probably get about 1% of the vote you will be stuck with the government that brought you DMCA and the Patriot Act in the first place.
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You, my friend, have never owned a BMW. My family had (until trees crushed them) a couple of late 80's or early 90's BMW's that they picked up cheap used. Turns out they could only take them to one garage in the county to be worked on....over 20 miles away. You see, to do any sort of serious maintenance, you have to have a special key (like the ones for your car or house) that only authorized BMW service centers are allowed to own. Oh, sure, you could buy them from the backs of magazines or the Internet, but this was a pretty gray area, legally. In my parents case, that one guy was apparently a worthless jackass, as more often than not, they'd find themselves driving to the second closes authorized repair center in Birmingham, 2 hours away, for any sort of maintenance...do you really want to drive a broken car 2 hours, let alone 20 minutes? Or heaven forbid, tow it? Only to have to deal with the biggest jackass in the county who overcharges by a factor of 2 or more?
Point is, this sort of thing has been going on for over 15 years with cars already. And there are lots of downsides.
More likely the Libertarian will support the DMCA becase Libertarians like property rights and anything that makes property rights stronger is good.
ship devise?
eye gas that's ok?
consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... successful license free 3rd party maintenance since/until forever. see you there?
Only if they buy into the bad analogy of copyright/patent being property rather than simply an intangeable asset.
Free Mac Mini Yeah, it's
Of course they consider it property, duh.
I know you mean well, and you probably just fat-fingered in your enthusiasm, but 20004 is probably a good estimate of how long it will take before a third party candidate sits in the White House again.
(The last time was in 1853, at the end of Fillmore's term as a Whig President.)
~Idarubicin
the president has no power over what laws are enforced.
he also has very little power in getting a law repealed.
congress certainly wouldnt listen to that sort of president anyways.
Corporations which temporarily or casually reside in the US (Which means ANY corp.) already have more rights and abilities than persons. Especially rich corps which have accumulated billions of $ worth of extra legal rights in the form of past judgments and investments in their own legal departments which keep track of how to use new laws like the DMCA and other things like the NAFTA.
It is also these legal departments that decide which and how much money goes to the various lobbyist campaigns which are actually a new billion dollar industry onto themselves. Even the fairly new "Astroturf" industry looks like it is worth about a billion bucks.
Of course this can be reversed but since 50% of your citizens can't even get off their buts to even vote the chances don't look good. So I guess step one is to care enough to educate yourself to know what is happening, oh yea and GET GEORGE BUSH OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Corporations also have another perverse and dangerous advantage over persons, Corporations are immortal.
that said, for the past several elections, I have voted for Cthulhu (write-in), as a sort of protest vote...
after all, why settle for the Lesser evil?
Talk to us when the Libertarians actually have a seat, or better yet, a majority, in either house of Congress. Until then, they will always be also-rans.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Talk to us when the Libertarians actually have a seat, or better yet, a majority, in either house of Congress. Until then, they will always be also-rans.
What was the percentage representation of the Republican party in Congres in 1820?
The Whigs are gone because they failed to lead. The Republican and Democratic parties could follow the same path if a compelling candidate and platform can be constructed.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"