On Saturday 14 January 2006 17:36, Jim Powers wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2006 20:02, Håkan Wikström wrote: > > > I hope there's some hope; I REALLY want the card reader working. I > > > don't understand why the person, who cracked the encryption (yah, it's > > > been cracked!) doesn't want to post the source code. It's 100% legal to > > > do so; source code is considered freedom of speech, so nobody can > > > complain. > > > > Could you please point us to any evidence that the firmware has been > > cracked? As far as I know the firmware loader (which supposedly works) > > was made with legal access to the unencrypted firmware. I assume the > > one who wrote the loader (I'm too lazy to look it up - search the > > archives if you really want it) was under an NDA. > > Well, starting here: > > http://prinsig.se/weekee/index.php/Media_reader_(hw) > > It appears that somebody either had access to the encoding algorithm > (perhaps under NDA) or cracked it. Either way it doesn't matter. This > well healed hacker will either be sued for breech of contract or sued for > violation of the f**king DMCA. Either way we cannot have at it. > > It appears that there are some hardware docs available but nobody is sure > that these docs are sufficient to write a driver for this piece of > hardware. > > Now since this guys has already written a firmware loader for this puppy it > would be trivial for TI to release an unencrypted piece of firmware (better > yet, the source for the firmware) for we non-Windows folks to use this > hardware. > > As per usual with the world these days: The laptop I'm typing on is MINE! > It is MY property. If I want to throw it off a cliff that is my > prerogative. But the dual conspiracies of gutless hardware manufactures and > the DMCA not only makes it impossible (or nearly so) for me to actually USE > all of the hardware contained within this piece of property of mine, it > actually makes it ILLEGAL for me to even TRY to do so. > > I really wish the rest of the world would "get" the fact that they are > being so royally screwed by hardware manufactures in cahoots with Microsoft > to essentially eliminate your rights as a the owner of a certain piece of > hardware to run the software you choose. > Does anyone know what the legal status of this is in other countries? -- Karol Krizka
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