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Lexmark's DMCA-Abuse Case Coming To An End

Posted by timothy on from the pfui-on-them dept.

Adama writes "Lexmark is dead in the water with their hopes to use the DMCA to force their customers to buy their over-priced toner. Their request for another hearing has been denied. Ars has an especially great write-up on this." (See this earlier story for more background on Lexmark's lock-in attempt.)

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  1. Re:This is a good decision. by TheKidWho · · Score: 0, Troll

    DMCA needs to go away, government regulation = bad.

  2. Re:Hopefully... by (negative+video) · · Score: 0, Troll
    "[I]nteroperable devices" may use proprietary security systems to lock out unauthorized interoperability, but a technology developed solely for this functional purpose is not copyrightable.
    This ruling just cancelled the copyright of the Linux kernel binaries, which are exclusively functional.

    Either solely functional data is copyrightable, or the GPL is worthless. You cannot have it both ways. Congress made this absolutely clear when they explicitly extended copyright to software. (There having been several court decisions that all software was public domain.) Given that, the applicability of the DMCA is crystal clear.

    Ya gotta love /.'s hysterical tabloid title. This ain't abuse of the DMCA, folks. Lexmark is using it exactly as intended.

  3. Re:unfortunately.... by Grishnakh · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your post makes them look like they care, but they're just another big company that's worried about image, nothing more. They, for instance, use vegetable oil but they still FLAVOR their fries with animal lard. They never admitted that until someone found that out and sued them over it.

    So? What's wrong with using animal lard for flavoring? All that's important is the nutritional content; using too much lard was bad, so they switched to frying in vegetable oil, but kept a little lard for flavoring. What's the big deal?

    Maybe if you're some moron who thinks that eating anything made from animals is somehow bad, you'd care, but then why would a person like that eat at a restaurant famous for hamburgers?