Kasz216 on 26 January 2013
| Mr Khan said: Who had ruled that it was legal initially, the same guy? Anyway, it flies in the face of established consumer law. Anyone who gets prosecuted under this should get the ACLU on their case and smack the big telecoms companies in their face. |
Same guy.
Truth is though, it's actually pretty consistant with US copyright law.
For example it's illegal to make backup copies of videogames because it's illegal to overwrite the copyright protection.
Essentially you have legal ownership over the box, but NOT legal ownership over the lock that is keeping the box closed. You can't do anything to change the lock, because then you would be damaging a corporations property. (The lock).
It sounds stupid and infuriating, but that's more or less how it's being ruled at the moment.
