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Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial
- malkamius 4mo agoSo, hide it behind multiple companies, and you will be fine? Should just share the source code.
- rbanffy 4mo agoI think the first thing I'd do would be to reflash the TV and turn it into an X terminal. Or the Wayland equivalent.
- RajT88 4mo agoWinning this case doesn't do what people think it will do... They still have the right to lock down the TV using cryptography to prevent unsigned code. That's covered by the DMCA as illegal to circumvent.
- rbanffy 4mo agoNot all countries have a DMCA
- RajT88 4mo agoSuper useful list here: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dmca-ignored-countries https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dmca-igno...
- rbanffy 4mo agoIn most countries you won't get in trouble for overriding hardware protections under right-to-repair or fair-use regulations.
- pabs3 4mo agoThat sounds like a GPLv2 violation: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-the-gpl-right-to-install/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
- f_allwein 4mo agodup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208304