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"You Bought It, but Do You Own It?"

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Open Source Hardware designer and reverse engineering guru, Andrew "bunnie" Huang, needs help to make sure that the answer is 'Yes' to the above question:

 

         http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2164

I believe if you buy hardware, you should own it; and ownership means nothing less of full rights to do with it as you wish. If you believe in this too, please sign my letter to the Library of Congress in support of extended exemptions to the DMCA, enabling jailbreaks for more platforms.

http://www.adafruit.com/adablog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bunnie_f.jpg

(via Adafruit [http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/26/you-bought-it-but-do-you-own-it/])

 

Cheers,

Drew

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  • While you own the device, you do not own the design.

    The copywrite law allows you to tear it apart and make it part of another device, but it does not give you the excuse to reverse engineer the design and blast it all over the Internet.

    I sympathise with some people's interest in make everything open source, but in this instance, I consider this activity to be theft, which is what the copywrite law was intended to prevent.

    If you really want to show off your skills, I suggest that you independently duplicate the device.  Then you can give "your" work away if you want.  But just copying someone else's design and providing it to people who could then compete with the original manufacturer is wrong.  Hence the law.

     

    Just my opinion.

    DAB

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    When you buy a bicycle you can mod it. You can you can add lights to it, change the brake, change the tires and wheels or paint it pink if you wish. You dont have the manufacturer forcing you to use the very same tires the bicycle came with or even tires from the same suplier.

     

    Then why is it illegal to make some modifications to improve or remove anything that anoys you from your electronic hardware device? why on earth would it be illegal to change the opperating system that your hardware came with?.We are not talking about distributing or copying the design or anything, but just exercising your rights on your property.

     

    Most people boasting about IP say they are protecting Intellectual property rights, but are actually damaging the property rights of the common people

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  • in reply to DAB

    When you buy a bicycle you can mod it. You can you can add lights to it, change the brake, change the tires and wheels or paint it pink if you wish. You dont have the manufacturer forcing you to use the very same tires the bicycle came with or even tires from the same suplier.

     

    Then why is it illegal to make some modifications to improve or remove anything that anoys you from your electronic hardware device? why on earth would it be illegal to change the opperating system that your hardware came with?.We are not talking about distributing or copying the design or anything, but just exercising your rights on your property.

     

    Most people boasting about IP say they are protecting Intellectual property rights, but are actually damaging the property rights of the common people

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