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Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What, are they claiming the user agent their application uses is copyrightable IP?

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    They're claiming that forking their open source code and using the user agent in it unchanged is "impersonation". And the only reason that might be an issue is because Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it illegal to break any digital lock, even if it's a shitty one. Whether this even counts as a lock is up for debate in my opinion, but that doesn't stop people from getting sued and owing lawyers money.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If you share the lock and the key with the public and tell them (via AGPL copyleft open source license) they may use, share, modify it (or not), etc with no penalty, and they even give you the secret knock, i can't in any way see how that's breaking a lock.

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