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On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 18:40, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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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 meant that you are replacing the BIOS. This is something that you |
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should not be able to do and are bypassing the access controls on doing |
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so. It doesn't matter if you never touch any of the original software. |
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If you even replace it, since there are access controls in place to |
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prevent you from doing so, then that counts. |
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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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I don't agree with it at all. It seems to me like you're stretching |
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things that I say to meet what you want to hear, and that is disturbing |
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as it makes it very hard to have a real conversation about this subject. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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