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."

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Re:Badnarik 20004!!!!!

[tarunthegreat2]

I disagree, but then that's because I'm a democrat, or rather, if I were in America, and allowed to vote, I'd be a democrat. Frankly, the fact that people voted for the 3rd guy basically took away votes from the democrats which brings America (and the World) to its current state.... Effective leadership (note, I'm not saying anything about democracy in that sentence) requires a relatively clear majority...you don't get that with a 3rd alternative... of course, you hope someday the 3rd (or even 4th) alternative will be the 1st Alternative, but in the meantime, you give the country a fractured verdict. Not good. Not good at all.