Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:10:24 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Re: ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel |
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:37:03AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > (*) Aside from any potential copyright infringement on the tables > > > themselves. But, it is theoretically possible to override the DSDT with > > > > Criminal liability under the DMCA and five years in jail too, along with > > having your SF account pulled and losing your ISP access at the first > > suggestion of copyright issues - and since you posted that email you are > > clearly not doing so by accident. > > Fortunately he was citing a legitimate purpose: to workaround ACPI table > bugs. Perhaps some judges favour legitimacy while other ones favour > corruption; choose your judges wisely :-)
I doubt that working around bugs is allowed either; one could argue that both region-coding and CSS are bugs disabling me from seeing particular DVD's and for sure that new CD-protection scheme is a bug, considering the "CD":s they produce don't even qualify as such according to Phillips(?)
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