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by RajT88 21 days ago
Winning this case doesn't do what people think it will do...

They still have the right to lock down the TV using cryptography to prevent unsigned code. That's covered by the DMCA as illegal to circumvent.

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Not all countries have a DMCA
In most countries you won't get in trouble for overriding hardware protections under right-to-repair or fair-use regulations.