...violated the law then. The law in particular is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which is an Act I payed good money for. You just can't pick and choose the laws (unless of course you have the money to do so). You must obey whatever the government tells you to obey.
It's a free country. You're free to obey the law. I suggest you tell your friend to go to his local police station and turn himself in for this gross violation of the DMCA. After all, I'm sure you have been having problems sleeping at night knowing that your friend is an evil pirate.
It doesn't matter how easy it is to defeat. My laws (the DMCA) will allow me to punish you theives. I paid good money for the DMCA so that way I don't have to spend it developing effective technological protection measures.
No player may be modified due to our purchase of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which forbids this type of very harmful behavior. It is only for your own good, and the Copyright Office agrees.
Just obey the DMCA and live with the inconveniences associated with it. Remember, it's not your hardware or motion pictures to fiddle with. It is simply under license from us and we may revoke your license at any time. So do the right thing and obey the DMCA.
Reverse engineering is prohibited under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act which you must obey at all times. Even if you are in another country without the wonderful DMCA you should still heed it as it would be the right thing to do. The AOL software is not your property to fiddle with. You must use it according to the license agreement which is completely valid and legal. It's for your own good.
Also the new hacking treaty would apply anyways as soon as it's rammed through Congress which will prohibit you from posessing any reverse engineering tools, compilers, assemblers, etc unless you are licensed by the Software Publisher's Agency, Motion Picture Agency, or the Recording Industry Agency. Of course your license would only be for approved uses. Hacking someone else's intellectual property without permission would still be unlawful... and intellectual property is property... PERIOD.
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...violated the law then. The law in particular is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which is an Act I payed good money for. You just can't pick and choose the laws (unless of course you have the money to do so). You must obey whatever the government tells you to obey.
It's a free country. You're free to obey the law. I suggest you tell your friend to go to his local police station and turn himself in for this gross violation of the DMCA. After all, I'm sure you have been having problems sleeping at night knowing that your friend is an evil pirate.
It doesn't matter how easy it is to defeat. My laws (the DMCA) will allow me to punish you theives. I paid good money for the DMCA so that way I don't have to spend it developing effective technological protection measures.
No player may be modified due to our purchase of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which forbids this type of very harmful behavior. It is only for your own good, and the Copyright Office agrees.
Just obey the DMCA and live with the inconveniences associated with it. Remember, it's not your hardware or motion pictures to fiddle with. It is simply under license from us and we may revoke your license at any time. So do the right thing and obey the DMCA.
I'm sure you've violated a copyright at some point in your pathetic life. Time to do the time for your crime.
Reverse engineering is prohibited under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act which you must obey at all times. Even if you are in another country without the wonderful DMCA you should still heed it as it would be the right thing to do. The AOL software is not your property to fiddle with. You must use it according to the license agreement which is completely valid and legal. It's for your own good.
Also the new hacking treaty would apply anyways as soon as it's rammed through Congress which will prohibit you from posessing any reverse engineering tools, compilers, assemblers, etc unless you are licensed by the Software Publisher's Agency, Motion Picture Agency, or the Recording Industry Agency. Of course your license would only be for approved uses. Hacking someone else's intellectual property without permission would still be unlawful... and intellectual property is property... PERIOD.
...but isn't competition a violation of the DMCA?