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by like_any_other
385 days ago
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> making it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak, and modify American products and services It's amazing that merely learning about how items that we own work (so-called "reverse-engineering") and exercising control over them (jailbreaking - this time the term is apt) has been made illegal. A heinous overreach by corporations into the lives of people that own their products, and a ridiculous expansion of IP rights - as if patents weren't enough, they want to treat as trade secrets products with mass-market availability. |
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Expanding patents to software, in Europe they replaced the 2005 software patent directive by the Unified Patent Court, which will ignore the exclusion of 'computer programs', like the EPO did, with no way for the question to be escalated to the CJEU:
https://ffii.org/unified-patent-court-has-an-eu-treaty-legal...
Multinational corporations also became part time judges, because rubberstamping software patents is easier when you can also corrupt the judicial system:
https://ffii.org/nokia-and-airbus-elected-as-judges-at-the-k...