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Originally Posted by Redcard
It's very weird.
Sony themselves have used DMCA to take down sites involving simply getting access to.. without any level of encryption.. the PSP's file system. They also successfully used the DMCA against a number of 3rd party Memory Card makers who were making larger Memory Cards than Sony's. They TRIED to use it against people who were making third party controllers, but that got struck down because the controllers are simply USB controllers with a different prong.
I'm glad that they're not as harsh on the Reader front, but I assure you, they've successfully taken action on things involving simple access to the device (not involving cryptography) using the DMCA.
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Yes, they have. The "successfully" part, however, hinges on the difference between "that which is legal" and "that which one can afford to contest with Sony's sharks (er... lawyers) and Sony's deep pockets." They haven't, to my knowledge, won any of these cases in court (except one that was overturned on appeal); the take-downs have all been cases of "take it down or we'll sue" rather than "court-ordered permanent injunction."
Of course, that's cold comfort if you turn out to be the one on the receiving end of a legal demand letter from Sony. The EFF'd probably be glad to take the case for someone like Kovid, though, given that he's pretty clearly squeaky-clean and actually
doing Sony a favor by making Sony's readers more attractive products.
Xenophon