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On Sunday 13 June 2004 21:26, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 09:10, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> > We are not "circumventing a technological measure that effectively |
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> > controls access to a work". If we were, it would be possible to copy and |
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> > play pirated games. How can a system that retains the existing security |
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> > features of the xbox be considered to be circumventing them? |
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> How about access to the BIOS? Is that not controlled? Bypassing an |
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> access control doesn't have to mean stealing games. |
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The bios is encrypted. Neither a software exploit or hardware modchip will |
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allow access to the unencrypted bios. Its like saying that a DVD driver |
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violates the DMCA because it allows access to the encrypted disk. |
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I think you need quite an advanced hardware setup to crack the encryption on |
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the bios - something like the FPGA northbridge sniffer in Bunnies book. You |
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can't do it from software. |
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> > It would be marketing it. It would not, however, be marketed for the |
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> > purpose of circumventing the protection on commercial DVDs. |
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> Nobody said it would. I'm talking about BIOS access, and always have |
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> been. Your viewpoint is too narrow as you're focusing on *only* copying |
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> games/DVDs illegally. |
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Cool, well if you agree with the DVD drive/encrypted data analogy then |
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xbox-linux is legal and we can proceed with the gentoo plans :) |
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