Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)

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Subject: Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)
From: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:36:12 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87d2mkdw9v.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org>
Reply-to: john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20131101133820.GA20010@panix.com> (Carl Fink's message of "Fri, 1 Nov 2013 09:38:20 -0400")
References: <20131029145619.42620@gmx.com> <52728151.1080308@mousecar.com> <CALuYw2zwfKd2-9Nkf8P3eACiMsJCBHt1pzMdJ0RHEUccq52_mg@mail.gmail.com> <5272A7D5.80809@mousecar.com> <5272B4C3.40209@optonline.net> <[🔎] 52738E77.5090805@mousecar.com> <[🔎] 20131101133820.GA20010@panix.com>

Carl Fink writes:
> DMCA (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) supercedes that law and
> makes it illegal again.

*Only* if the manufacturer has installed "anti-circumvention
 technology". If they have made no attempt to prevent reading out the
 firmware the DMCA does not apply.

I also don't think the DMCA would apply if you were to blindly overwrite
the manufacturer's firmware without breaking their "protection".  It's
supposedly not about changing your phone but rather about gaining access
to their "secrets".
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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- Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)
  - From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
- Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)
  - From: Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>

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