Re: [NTLK] Hacked WiFi driver

From: Norman Palardy <npalardy_at_great-white-software.com>
Date: Thu Jan 11 2007 - 01:00:12 EST

On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Andrei Chichak wrote:

> On 1/10/2007 8:07:21 PM, Norman Palardy
> (npalardy@great-white-software.com) wrote:
>> This is off in left field but aren't
>> there provisions in the DMCA to
>> cover this sort of thing making is "legal" to do under certain
>> circumstances ?
>
> That would be section 1201, Circumvention of copyright protection
> systems.
>
> One problem - if you could make it look like section 1201 subsection
> f paragraph 2 applies, how do you apply it to a work of someone
> residing in Japan? Worse yet - how does someone from Alberta, Canada
> apply an American law on a copyrighted work from Japan so that
> someone from Germany can come up with a workaround to GIVE the work
> to someone in Australia?

That I have no idea
But if you were American you may be covered and able to distribute it
under that

I'd agree that the best is probably to build a new one

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