Re:Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privac...
by biafra on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:28PM
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As I understand it, EUCD is about copyright protection. Unlocking my bootloader is not a violation of this. So EUCD does not apply here.
Re:Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privac...
by chopin on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:05PM
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>Funny you mention Germany though. It is one of the few countries that tried to outlaw "hacking tools", broadly defined as including a lot of reverse engineering tools you would use for the purpose you mentioned. I don't know what happened with that, perhaps the situation have improved?
No.
The EUCD was the DMCA pushed through the EU by trade agreements. In some ways it's worse, since it lacks the safe harbor provision.
The end user situation isn't as bad though because there are other laws that protect you. In Sweden there is a provision that it is specifically allows it for interoperability reasons for example.
Funny you mention Germany though. It is one of the few countries that tried to outlaw "hacking tools", broadly defined as including a lot of reverse engineering tools you would use for the purpose you mentioned. I don't know what happened with that, perhaps the situation have improved?