On Sunday 15 January 2006 00:26, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Jim Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | > Does anyone know what the legal status of this is in other countries? > | > | Well it depends on what the circumstance is under which the code was > | written for the decoder. If the code was written under NDA, then it's a > | no-go. The author cannot release the code without TI's approval. If the > | firmware was "cracked" then it's a DMCA-related issue. Several countries > | have DMCA-like laws on the books. I think one of them is Canada. > > In Canada, we don't yet have DMCA-like legislation. Bill C-60 > included "anti-circumvention" provisions but died on the order paper > when Parliament was dissolved. Translation: the previous government > put introduced a bill that has some of this stuff, but it got derailed > for our Federal election (January 23). It is likely that the next > government will do something similar.
Thanks for the update. Like I said I've tried for a little while to avoid digging around this issue is tends to cause objects to spontaneously combust in my presence. Well, glad to hear that Canada is not yet under the yolk of DMCA-like nonsense. > The US has managed to impose these things on parts of the rest of the > world through a variety of techniques. To get a trade deal, Australia > signed on. The WIPO Internet treaties apparently mandate something. > To be fair, each country has its own lobbiests for this stuff. This is our new product for export: bad legislation to protect robber-barons. Damn, this nonsense pisses me off. > The best way to get this firmware is for someone to talk to TI. I > cannot see how it is in their interest to prevent Linux use of their > hardware. Unfortunately this is true. I am game for cracking this thing, but time (I'd have to learn a TON about decryption) and priorities (I've got my own projects to work on) will prohibit this. I hate the idea of letting these bastards get away with stomping all over my rights, especially via wrong-headed legislation. Jim Powers _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
