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Re: 1.5GHz G4 MacMini's on eBay $175.99
« on: December 23, 2011, 01:03:07 AM »
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illegally charging
Can you please cite the law that makes this illegal? I really hate it when someone cries foul without backing it up. It may not be good business, but that is slightly different from being "illegal".
 

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Re: 1.5GHz G4 MacMini's on eBay $175.99
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2011, 01:36:22 PM »
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patching the slowdown and telling others how to do it isnt illegal either.

In most legislations circumventing a protection like that is illegal. At least it is in EU, USA and Australia.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32009L0024:EN:NOT
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1201.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/caa2006213/
 

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Re: 1.5GHz G4 MacMini's on eBay $175.99
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2011, 03:37:17 PM »
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except the slowdown is not a copyright mechanism as it does not restrict the number of times I can make a copy of the iso image I downloaded. at best, its an annoyance. The copyright mechanism of morphos is tieing the key to the hardware.
Except that since the slowdown is the only difference between locked and unlocked system (the effective result of the protection), removing the timeout is thus circumventing the protection.

This is quite academic though, since on-one will bother enough to crack MorphOS anyway (they're invited to try though, it's not as trivial as you might think).
 

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Re: 1.5GHz G4 MacMini's on eBay $175.99
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2011, 08:40:42 PM »
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DMCA doesn't cover hardware dongles, so it's unlikely to cover software equivalents

It does.