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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by oiuyftgrghjk on Friday November 05, 2010 @05:29PM (#1875010)
"work closely with law enforcement"

If they do they are going to be on the wrong side of the bars.

Article 6 of the EU convention on software prohibits anything which stops you reverse engineering hardware or software for interoperability.

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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by X-Istence on Friday November 05, 2010 @09:40PM (#1875624)
DMCA allows reverse engineering for interoperability or when it is for education.
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by mkramlich on Saturday November 06, 2010 @05:32AM (#1876534)
Reverse engineering is educational, thus... Er. Uh. :)
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