ARGGHH!!!! I HATE THE DMCA! Wonder if I can find anti DMCA stickers for my car. Should go well with my GEEK plate.
Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Puryear > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] FW: Does buying an Xbox hurt or > help MS? was RE: [brlug-general] one step closer to VR > > > At 03:06 PM 6/12/2003 +0000, you wrote: > >I just recently reimaged a dead tivo for a friend of mine > and was able > >to > >bump him up from a 20gig to an 80gig drive, and it was legal > because he > >"owned" the tivo. There are tons of sites about tivo > hacking and I have > >seen nothing illegal so far regarding tivo hacks. (unless you start > >getting into the directv/tivo boxes, but the illegal stuff is on the > >directv side of things) > > > >Imagine if other stuff was sold like this and you bought a > license for > >a > >hamburger and it was illegal to remove the tomato from your > burger because > >that was be reverse engineering the burger as per the EULA on the > >wrapper... scary huh! > > I don't think it is illegal to modify the X-Box per se, but > modifying or in > any way tampering with any mechanism that protects > copyrighted content > (i.e., the software running on the machine) would violate the > DMCA. Anyone, > please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
