Those provisions are specifically for the breaking or circumvention of technical measures designed to prevent copyright infringement.
I don't see a parallel here.
Those provisions are specifically for the breaking or circumvention of technical measures designed to prevent copyright infringement.
I don't see a parallel here.
They've been twisted to support almost anything, for example repairing your tractor is illegal because of this same law. But I agree this is just plain old hacking under a plain old reading of the CFAA and doesn't need any twists.
> for example repairing your tractor is illegal because of this same law.
No it's not. There has never been a case establishing that, and it's absurd on its face. The protection measures that the law makes illegal to break must control access to a copyrighted work, and you can't copyright functionality.
You see, they made it so you can't repair your tractor without circumventing a technological copy protection measure, which is illegal under DMCA 1201.
Has this been litigated, or is it just something tractor manufacturers have cooked up in the hopes that it'll stand up in court? Because I seem to recall printer manufacturers doing something similar with refilling toner cartridges and losing.
Any protection measure that gates repairability cannot be said to control access to a copyrighted work.