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iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)
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[–] Hawke 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But isn’t it ineffective once it’s been bypassed, therefore making it legal again?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that’s not what they mean by “effective.” They define it like this:

a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

The key verbiage there is “in the ordinary course of its operation.”

[–] Hawke 1 points 1 year ago

Someone should tell these people that words have meanings.