10-23-2006, 09:47 PM | #1 |
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Did anyone read the EULA for their Reader?
No reverse engineering, no derivative works... blah blah blah.
If you violate the terms of this EULA Sony can require you to destroy all copies of the software. Sounds like they're pretty hostile to anyone hacking the device. |
10-23-2006, 10:31 PM | #2 |
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Is that a standard set of clauses? Did the Librie' have similar clauses in its EULA? (I'm really asking, I don't have any idea ) They didn't seem to upset about the Librie' hacks....
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Chances are that kind of boilerplate is in all Sony hardware product EULAs.
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Such EULA's have been found to be enforceable time after time in court. It puts a new spin on what Sony could do if they decide enough is enough. |
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The issue would be different if someone tried and published a way to circumvent Sony's BBeB DRM (Kinoma) protection. |
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The BBeB's DRM is Marlin, and I'm sure they would be quite unhappy about anyone breaking it.
Maybe I can get a reaction to the hacking done around here when they're in Austin at the Book Festival this weekend. |
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You guys rock!
I already had the impression from the SD thing that they're not particularly threatened by efforts aimed at, um, "extending the functionality of the Reader." They didn't say as much, but I don't think it was something they could have said no matter how they wanted to. There did seem to be recognition that the more the Reader can do, the better it looks to buyers, so I don't expect that they'll be too torqued about the whole thing. Remember, they are probably as up on what's going on 'round here as I am, maybe more, since a lot of it goes swishing cleanly over my head. I do think it's safe to say, however, that they'd be opposed to anything that would break the DRM, or prevent returning to the Factory OS, should the user wants to do that. |
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DRM. I respect DRM. Let DRM respect me, my ownership rights on the reader and the books. If somebody (being inspired by his understanding of digital rights) prevented an owner of a reader and books on it to exercise the ownership rights that prevention will be destroyed. Because of a big corporation is much much bigger then a men but smaller then a community. |
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