Messages in this thread | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: ide-related kernel panic in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-pre11 | Date | Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:59:09 +0000 (UTC) |
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Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes:
>They are not broken if you have a device which is "Copy-protected" aware. >It will attempt to thwart your operation request and that can include >crashing a system.
Which in my country would result in a direct lawsuit ($303b of the german law code: "Anschlaege auf die Datenverarbeitung durch Veraenderung oder Vernichtung von Computerdaten, Datentraegern oder Anlagen") against the vendor of the drive, the computer and the CD.
Thank goodness, I'm living in a country where "law enforcement at gun point" is not usual.
Regards Henning
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