[1] https://blog.nektra.com/2020/01/12/reflecting-on-16-years-of...
Anecdote: we reverse engineered several Microsoft products and before Microsoft Windows 7 launch we were contacted by Microsoft QA and they offered us support to check if our software was compatible with it! BTW, our software was installed in millions of computers around the globe. For example, Trend Micro used our software for supporting their antivirus in Outlook Express and Windows Mail.
Our Deviare Hooking Engine [1] was eclipsed when Microsoft Detours [2] turned to an MIT license and free. Even when our was superior in several ways. This is why I wrote that you should continuously fight for "adversarial interoperability".
[1] https://github.com/nektra/Deviare2
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/detours/
If you know anybody that can help please let me know because I want to get back to maintaining the project.
https://gist.github.com/smashah/667d4d5cf31670ee87547450861a...
They sent us C&Ds based on ToS.
Meta has done this before to insta and android devs.
Some never came back to their projects. It causes insane amount of stress and depression amongst the devs I've spoken with who went through the same thing.
If the use of this software is against their rights in some way, the end users running it would be the ones in violation. Publishing original software is protected expression.
An open source client for an API need not include any non-original works.
It targets games, so manages to be useful without having to emulate or re-implement the majority of the OS.
The situation seems very similar to the AACS key leak back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
That means Jack Shit in a world where a lawsuit can ruin a person's life regardless of its legal merit, with zero consequences for the corporation that filed it even if it gets tossed out by a judge eventually.
LPT: Live as if human/constitutional rights didn't exist. Because if push ever comes to shove, you will quite possibly find that they indeed don't exist in practice.
There's no story in the world that will get people to stop using services like Whatsapp or Instagram.
The only thing stopping these big companies is potentially setting a legal precedent that interop projects are legal.
They can potentially win such a case as it stands because the targets for their threats are few and far between.
If we as digital humans want to solidify this digital right then we need to have a unified front against threats like this. That means we need to have an OSS union behind which companies and individuals can unify if a precedent setting case ever does come up
So it's even worse than the risk of being taken down. Way worse.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-w...
Assuming that DMCA does not cover API authentication (i.e. preventing unauthorized third-party clients from being able to access a server-side API – and I really don't know if it does or doesn't!), I wonder what the implications are if the same mechanism is used for both DMCA-covered DRM mechanisms, but also non-covered other purposes.
My intuition would be that it can't be good to "multi-purpose" a DRM tool from a DMCA enforcement point of view, but maybe that was never Apple's plan, and they just used the most secure attestation technology they had available on each platform, which for Intel Macs might just have been software-only FairPlay.
Yeah, and when exactly should everyone expect to stop seeing DMCA take down notices that didn't abuse the system, willingful harm creators, and an appeals process that is an unfunny joke?
Until then, it doesn't matter what the law says. They will abuse it, because PROFITS.
At the time it seemed like a serious threat.