What are the odds the DMCA will be invoked against "owners" (physical holders) of the hardware un-jailing their systems and getting jailed themselves?
They could say it allows overriding DRM or even put a poem in the firmware to force it to be considered a DMCA violation because access to a copyrighted work has been obtained by circumvention.
5 years in prison and being a felon (look at the Perl guy who was banned from Canada for life) is enough to scare almost everyone off of Linux. Not to mention the reality of how physically brutalized the average geek would be in prison - 5 hours would be enough to destroy him.
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DMCA. Unjail your PC, jail yourself.
Date: 2011-10-20 12:45 am (UTC)They could say it allows overriding DRM or even put a poem in the firmware to force it to be considered a DMCA violation because access to a copyrighted work has been obtained by circumvention.
5 years in prison and being a felon (look at the Perl guy who was banned from Canada for life) is enough to scare almost everyone off of Linux. Not to mention the reality of how physically brutalized the average geek would be in prison - 5 hours would be enough to destroy him.