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Fucking fools
Oct. 13th, 2003 11:48 amhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3186592.stm
Yes, a company wanted to sue a student for telling people how to bypass Windows' CD autorun feature. The facts that:
- disabling autorun is a natural thing to want to be able to do
- it's easy to turn it off completely anyway (like I have)
- if you don't disable autorun, it seems like the cd installs software on your system without asking
... make this a pretty ridiculous case. What makes it funnier is that the 'discovery' of being able to defeat the 'anti-piracy measures' is being called 'research'. And the company says "No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to facilitate piracy and theft of digital property." In other words, you're not allowed to tell people basic facts about how to use their computers if it might get round your pathetic attempts at copy protection. It's like suing someone for showing you the record button on your VCR.
Cretins, every last one of them.
Yes, a company wanted to sue a student for telling people how to bypass Windows' CD autorun feature. The facts that:
- disabling autorun is a natural thing to want to be able to do
- it's easy to turn it off completely anyway (like I have)
- if you don't disable autorun, it seems like the cd installs software on your system without asking
... make this a pretty ridiculous case. What makes it funnier is that the 'discovery' of being able to defeat the 'anti-piracy measures' is being called 'research'. And the company says "No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to facilitate piracy and theft of digital property." In other words, you're not allowed to tell people basic facts about how to use their computers if it might get round your pathetic attempts at copy protection. It's like suing someone for showing you the record button on your VCR.
Cretins, every last one of them.
