>On 26 September 2011 20:29, Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.b...@gmx.net> >wrote: >>>> between a fully-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a >>>> cracked boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, >>>> at least initially >>> >>>And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will >>>surely find out a way. >> >> yes, there will most likely be a technical way to circumvent it. the >> problem is that involved companies might try (and likely succeed) to >> make that illegal. > >Unfortunately, under the DMCA, breaking any encryption / >copy-protection mechanism is illegal under US copyright law of all >things (and by extension, globally :-/ ). I listened to a pretty >interesting debate about this related to the "Right to Repair" act in >the States, which relates to the right to access car firmware / >software. The consensus seems to be that the pitifully easy-to-crack >encryption is only there so that the software becomes covered by the >DMCA. What a mess. >
agreed. still there might be different ways. replacing the whole bios chip (or software) with something different for example. then you technically didn't break any encryption, so no dmca. but i still think that would sooner or later get you in trouble if you offer that service commercially.
