Re:Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by tra...
by btilly on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:26PM
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But those articles in no way gives one the right to harm the rightholder's business practices. For example by exposing them to public criticism. That potential limitation is implied in both 5.3 and 6.2.a.
I don't know what other provisions of EU law might apply here. But it is literally the job of the lawyers issuing the threats to find potential gotchas like that. I would assume that they are competent.
Re:Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by tra...
by p_l on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:20PM
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Similarly it's criminal to put undisclosed lockouts preventing owner of the device from using it.
We also have this right:
The person having a right to use a copy of a computer program shall be entitled, without the authorisation of the rightholder, to observe, study or test the functioning of the program in order to determine the ideas and principles which underlie any element of the program if he does so while performing any of the acts of loading, displaying, running, transmitting or storing the program which he is entitled to do.
Article 5(3) and 6.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32...