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Stephen Downes

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The question you need to ask when you read this short is item is this: are you willing to buy a product from a provider who uses the Digitral Millenium Copyright Act to enforce a monopoly on servicing your hardware? "The court found that third party service techs who used the key without StorageTek's permission "circumvented" to gain access to the copyrighted code in violation of the DMCA, even though they had the explicit permission of the purchasers to fix their machines."

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