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I am sure Jim Conforti disagrees with you.
What are you doing with your Lexmark printer?
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as DRM) and criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, even when there is no infringement of copyright itself. It also heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. |
Whether Jim agrees or not is meaningless. What do our resident lawyers think? (Note: real ones please) BMW's inaction on this issue (assuming my read is correct) means little if they decide to eventually take action; copyright is not like trademark.
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Timothy B. Lee, in a paper written for the Cato Institute, wrote:
The DMCA is anti-competitive. It gives copyright holders — and the technology companies that distribute their content — the legal power to create closed technology platforms and exclude competitors from interoperating with them
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Sounds like BMW could certainly prevent other software from running on their computer.