{"id":4138,"date":"2004-07-11T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T09:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2004-07-11T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2004-07-11T09:55:58","slug":"yet_another_rea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4138","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Reason The DMCA Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugs, this just pisses me off.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/lawgeek.typepad.com\/lawgeek\/2004\/07\/dmca_hammer_com.html\">DMCA hammer comes down on tech service vendor<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This just in: A district court in Boston has used the DMCA to grant a <a href=\"http:\/\/lawgeek.typepad.com\/lawgeek\/LegalDocs\/storagetekdmca.pdf\">preliminary injunction<\/a> against a third party service vendor who tried to fix StorageTek tape library backup systems for legitimate purchasers of the system.<\/p>\n<p>How is this a DMCA violation? Well, it turns out that StorageTek allegedly uses some kind of algorithmic &#8220;key&#8221; to control access to its &#8220;Maintenance Code&#8221;, 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&#8217;s permission &#8220;circumvented&#8221; 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. [<a href=\"http:\/\/lawgeek.typepad.com\/lawgeek\/\">LawGeek<\/a>] [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/07\/10\/dmca_says_you_cant_f.html\">boingboing<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What scares me the most about this is thinking about what the next step from here could be.  Could a car manufacturer do a similar thing with the computer in your car? I&#8217;m not a lawyer, so I don&#8217;t know for sure, but it seems like it could be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugs, this just pisses me off. DMCA hammer comes down on tech service vendor This just in: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}