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by Mike Masnick




Opening Your Own Garage Safe From The DMCA

from the phew dept

As expected a judge has ruled in favor of a summary judgment that a universal garage door opener does not violate the DMCA for circumventing the original garage door opener maker's copy protection system. The judge seems to take a common sense approach to the matter, pointing out that it's ridiculous to believe that opening ones own garage door could be seen as a violation of the DMCA. This is a good ruling, and hopefully we'll see more based on this precedent. Now, the question will be whether or not people will be able to use such a ruling to support the idea of being able to open other things they thought they owned - like a gaming console or some software...

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  1. Sep 11th, 2004 @ 12:56am

    Garage door opener CASE DMCA in PDF

    Not sure if my original post was dumped, but you can find the entire Chamberlain Vs Skylink case at www.aclickawayremotes.com it is also in text format as well. Thanks all

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