Post #2753651
2026-05-14 16:33 UTC
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@4am@lemmy.zip 2026-05-14 19:47
The DMCA is literally written in a way that they could write “DO NOT USE” in a text file and include it with firmware and claim that using the firmware Ina way they didn’t like was “breaking a digital lock” Honestly I’m perfectly fine with the DMCA just being entirely revoked at this point. It has enabled more bad than it has done good, even when things went “right”
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@paraphrand@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 16:48
I dunno. Plenty of people have gotten in serious trouble for just accessing publicly reachable data and systems. And this was without identifying themselves as someone else or acting as someone else. I wonder if the courts would agree with you. I don’t think “your lock was shitty” will hold up in court. Maybe this is one of those cases where every single user of the software is liable since they are the one accessing the computer systems? But the software creator isn’t? I dunno. This is just a comment on accessing computer systems. Not a comment on 3D printers or Louis.