@utf_7 @schmittlauch @iFixit

Exactly

@schmittlauch @iFixit
Remember DVD-Jon? That case made Europeans well aware of the scare tactics the eminate from the US. The Icelandic version of the MPAA tried to copy the US scare tactics, claiming copying was illegal - but they were shot down - because it isn't.

And unlike americans, European people are VERY APT at watching their rights and fighting to keep them.

@schmittlauch @iFixit

art. 11a; A legal owner of a computer program can copy it for safe-keeping (only!)
A legal owner of a computer program can disassemble the program to examine, investigate or test the program to learn its workings and the ideas and views the individual parts of the programs rest on, given that these actions are in conjunction with the permissable use rightholder has in conjuction of the perusal of the software.

@schmittlauch @iFixit as I said - they tried. Even little Iceland didn't bow down.

Icelnadic copyright law:
art. 11; An individual can copy a published copyrighted work (book, music, movie) for own use as long as there is no financial gain.

@Nicovel0 @iFixit In Europe that might be tough. Europe, unlike the US isn't a corporatocracy.

They will of course try. And it isn't like they haven't tried before. What does surprise me is that Bosch, being a German company - one would have thought they'd ethically stand above such immoralities - but then, BMW wanted a subscription fee for your paid-for car seat heater, so... ‍️ boo knows...

@iFixit good thing then that the DMCA is not enforcable outside the United Shitholes of north America..