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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by dubcanada on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:59PM (#27039777)

The maker has been advertising the product like crazy and even though they have been told this already has yet to change the name.

So more then likely expect this to be taken down in the next few weeks.

I would expect a C&D from a lawyer company any day now, and more then likely they will ask for the domain as well. Since ACPA will classify this as "cyber squatting" since you are charging for the product.

You're also reverse engineering which is a gray zone as it is AND charging for the result.

So I wouldn't be surprised if instead of a C&D they just went straight to lawsuit.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by arcticbull on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:26PM (#27040935)

I don't take quite the same bearish view on this app.

I suspect the "reverse engineering" here was just looking at Bluetooth LE GATT attributes and values, which you can just look at using something like Bluetility [1]. There appears to be some exemptions to DMCA for compatibility so long as the author didn't copy Bose' code, but IANAL. [2]

The name I think is the more challenging part because it's very close - probably a C&D if it becomes popular to change the name.

[1] https://github.com/jnross/Bluetility

[2] https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by crooked-v on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:16PM (#27041680)

This is a trademark issue, not a copyright one.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by arcticbull on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:57PM (#27042800)

Agreed.

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