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Which leads to my favorite line from the congresswoman's summary is "In<br>
addition, the bill would permit the use and sale of tools – like<br>
software apps – that enable unlocking for uses that do not infringe on<br>
copyright. " I hope it's just a firmware update for the HDHR Prime to<br>
ignore the copy protection flags on cable channels!<br>
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You could, but in all likelihood the firmware itself is copyrighted, and thus you would not be able to distribute your modified versions of it. You could (in theory) write your own clean room firmware from scratch, but then you would still have to crack the CC handshake to authorize your new firmware. If you have to deal with the handshake, you may as well do that from their open source library, rather than trying to write a whole firmware.</blockquote>
</div><div><br>Well at least someone seems to be trying to inject some sense into the DMCA. Is there any chance it will pass though? It's only a Bill at this stage from what I read. </div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div style>Well, it does have some things going for it:</div><div style>1. Two of the bills' creators are in CA... so they are willing to stand up to the huge media lobby there.</div><div style>2. It is a bipartisan bill to some degree.</div>
<div style>3. It is actually a simple bill... anyone voting against it would have a hard time finding a good excuse except that they are in big media's pockets.</div><div style>4. It's a bill that voters of all types would support, and would be angry if their representatives didn't... assuming they even knew what it meant.</div>
<div style>5. It's timely... with high dollar smart phones dominating (even in low income areas), even average folks are up in arms over the idea that they can't take their phone with them to another carrier.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>While I still have my doubts that it will pass, simply because the media lobby is so strong, I will do what I can to promote it and get folks to write their congressperson.</div></div></div>
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