[opendtv] Re: DMCA says you can't fix your own tape-drive
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:10:51 +0100
Gee, does that make StorageTek devices more useful or less? Methinks that
StorageTek will lose in trying to defend their business model using DMCA.
John Willkie
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http://lists.flarn.com/pipermail/boingboing-mailblog/2004-July/000870.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/10/dmca_says_you_cant_f.html
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:23:22 -0400
From: Cory Doctorow
Subject: DMCA says you can't fix your own tape-drive
DMCA says you can't fix your own tape-drive My cow-orker Jason
Schultz reports on a breaking new DMCA horripilation: a court has
ordered a company to stop fixing tape-drives because in so doing, it
makes unauthorized access of a copyrighted "Maintenance Code."
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 for legitimate purchasers of
the system.
How is this a DMCA violation? Well, it turns out that StorageTek
allegedly uses some kind of algorithmic "key" to control access to
its "Maintenance Code", the module that allows the service tech to
debug the storage system. The court found that third party service
techs who used the 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.
Link (http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2004/07/dmca_hammer_com.html)
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