[olug] [ot] not sure on the details

[Kevin D. Snodgrass]

--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Jason Zeisler <superztnt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree. I think if I own it I can do
> what I want. If they want to maintain
> ownership and rent/lease them. Does anyone know what their
> legal standing is
> on this? If I remember right they tried the same thing with

DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).  There is encryption in that box and the mod chips bypass that or something.  Since encryption is disabled the modder has violated part of the DMCA.  Brought to you by the One World Government types that created WIPO.  Read more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

And here:

http://www.eff.org/issues/dmca

And here:

http://gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm

Kevin D. Snodgrass