Forget my last post - I just realised I got the wrong end of the stick. I was thinking about what happened to Skylarov. I really need to learn to read these things more carefully.
Wouldn't it be prosecuted here in the US under DMCA?
Surely if this guy had gone ahead and produced the patch anyway any breach of the law would have involved the German authorities and German law since the crime (assuming it was seen as one) was perpetrated on German soil?
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Forget my last post - I just realised I got the wrong end of the stick. I was thinking about what happened to Skylarov. I really need to learn to read these things more carefully.
Wouldn't it be prosecuted here in the US under DMCA?
Surely if this guy had gone ahead and produced the patch anyway any breach of the law would have involved the German authorities and German law since the crime (assuming it was seen as one) was perpetrated on German soil?