Devilfish
DW Regular
Simply use a different version of head.ko when creating an image.
Surely there's some very serious legal implications for Dream Multimedia with this. You can't just go around destroying someone else's property, which in many case was purchased in good faith. It's a bit like Microsoft not only disabling Vista if you haven't got a valid license, but also deliberately frying the motherboard in your PC. I'm sure they'll claim it was a bug, but I can't see how it can be. And why do this now, when they've stopped making the 500? Maybe it's just a way to force people into upgrading to the 500+, which as far as I can tell would be a pointless upgrade. What use is the extra flash memory anyway?
Okay, so maybe the Microsoft example wasn't great, but I disagree that people should automatically know that they're buying a clone. After all, I'm sure that there's plenty of people that payed full whack from a dealer for a clone, believing it to be genuine. And surely it is still your property, you just happen to own a clone.Microsoft does not produce PC's or not for the Mass Market,
Better Example would be a Mac with Mac OS.
If some factory now decides to clone a Mac and sell with Mac software it would be OK for Mac to stop them doing so.
You cannot claim you did not know that you did not buy a fake good, it is not your property as it should have never been sold to you in the 1st Place.
The dead giveaway should also have been the price ...
But in this case it's not just software theft it's also hardware theft !
The Boxes circuit Boards are copied 1:1 including the crappy 100MBit network and then on top of if the copyright proctected Software is stolen too.
The Mac example suits better as Apple builds the hardware and develops the software on top !
Imagine someone copies a Volkswagen Golf somewhere in China and they copy it completely incl. the Software the controls the Car.
You buy it half price and then Volkswagen run's an Update that renders the Car useless....
If you have bought one from an official Dealer and the Dealer did not advise you that the Item is actually a fake then you can report him to trading standards.
Same thing for fake clothes or glases from ebay... The price is always a giveaway..
Again,
I am sure this would apply if the product the copyrighted software is being used on would be a different development alltogether.
The Fact is it's a 1:1 copy and Fake Glases etc get normally destroyed by Customs.
Lovely to see that Curry's and Co. try to flog you extra warrenty ..
The issue is intellectual copyright theft not physical theft (hardware). The clones are not stolen from DMM's factory. Their ideas (that are legally protected, at least in Germany, which leads to another problem - how far copyright stretches legally) are stolen.
To disable boxes bought possibly in good faith (there are many bought off ebay at premium prices, that advertise authenticity) if not legal, is morally wrong. Do they go after the far eastern factories that make the clones? No. That is too hard, and expensive, and the possibly that they would lose a worldwide copyright legal battle. Instead they do two things. Stop production of the real boxes (because to be honest the far east factories have a better business model in terms of production), and then when that didn't stop the 500c from being sold (in clone form) they try and break personal property. It is disgusting.
Just as nike could not rip a t-shirt off your back on the street if it bore their name, but was not authentic, DMM should not be able to spread a computer virus to try and defend its copyright.
And lets face it, DMM have made a nice business out of the dark side of cable. To be honest if Richard Branson dropped a bomb from his balloon on the DMM headquarters, stating he had a right to defend the intellectual copyright of his company I would laugh.
This all smacks of pots and pans decrying each other for their dark complexion.
That link's old mate. It's explaining the MAC filtering they did to only allow Gemini to run on genuine boxes. It was defeated in about 3 seconds flat. The stuff from DMM is a lot more insidious..
The issue is intellectual copyright theft not physical theft (hardware). The clones are not stolen from DMM's factory. Their ideas (that are legally protected, at least in Germany, which leads to another problem - how far copyright stretches legally) are stolen.
To disable boxes bought possibly in good faith (there are many bought off ebay at premium prices, that advertise authenticity) if not legal, is morally wrong. Do they go after the far eastern factories that make the clones? No. That is too hard, and expensive, and the possibly that they would lose a worldwide copyright legal battle. Instead they do two things. Stop production of the real boxes (because to be honest the far east factories have a better business model in terms of production), and then when that didn't stop the 500c from being sold (in clone form) they try and break personal property. It is disgusting.
Just as nike could not rip a t-shirt off your back on the street if it bore their name, but was not authentic, DMM should not be able to spread a computer virus to try and defend its copyright.
And lets face it, DMM have made a nice business out of the dark side of cable. To be honest if Richard Branson dropped a bomb from his balloon on the DMM headquarters, stating he had a right to defend the intellectual copyright of his company I would laugh.
This all smacks of pots and pans decrying each other for their dark complexion.
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OK,
let's try that again.
DMM have a least in Germany if not in the whole of Europe the patent on their developed product and Software.
There are ways that you can insure yourself against property theft and at least in Germany they offer a reward of 10.000€ for any Information about the cloned Boxes.
The new Boxes have got a Sim Card in them that should stop the cloning business.
pt-1 said:Again in Germany if I buy a Navigation Radio for example for a Volkswagen and pay in good faith for it and a few weeks later the Police knocks on my door they have every right to take this unknown to my knowledge "stolen" Navigation Device of me and I shall not receive any refund.
I am not aware if DMM officially sell these Boxes in the UK
Unfortunately is it a normal thing in the UK to sell Fake Pirate DVD's or even Cable Boxes in Market Stals around the country.
Mr. Brandson would have no need to Bomb the DMM Headquarter as the Boxes are officially and legally sold in Country's were the Cable Market is open and not monopolized ....
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