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Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU #CopyrightDirective, including #Article6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the #ChaosCommunicationsCongress in Hamburg this month - Germany is also a party to the #EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real - but so is the threat to conferences that host them:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/
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The saving grace was an anonymous, former Medtronic repair tech, who built pirate boxes to generate unlock codes, using any housing they could lay hands on to use as a case: guitar pedals, clock radios, etc. This tech shipped these gadgets around the world, observing strict anonymity, because #Article6 of the #EUCD *also* bans circumvention:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/flintstone-delano-roosevelt/#medtronic-again
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#LouisRossmann #live: Fixing the #DMCA - with Nathan Proctor
Dear @EU_Commission,
Every time you sell out to #Megacorps, it is for "the economy" (#SoftwarePatents, #EUCD, #TRIPS, #CETA,... ).
Every time you try to impose #surveillance #dictatorship, you do it to "fight" #terrorism or #sexualassault on #children.
You are doing it again, and again and again - no matter what we, the citizens of #Europe or even the courts say.
With #ChatControl, you #rape the victims once more by abusing their pain to justify your means.
PS: Welcome to the #Fediverse.
So this is it, eh..? The #EUCD passes with #Article13..? 😔
Important Update To The Article 13 Situation & Why The Internet Still Needs Your Help! - https://youtu.be/owjP8SKMT7Q
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