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Jim Rojas
Read all about it...
Jim Rojas
You're going to lose this one............ Brinks has it in the bag. You just can't steal and resell what's not yours. Proprietary ownership is clear cut and is protected by law. Hope you made a lot............... it's probably going to cost more than you made.
Demand a jury trial. Your services ultimately save consumers money and give them more options. Jurors are overwhelmingly consumers not copyright holders.
I removed access to their manuals after the second letter. You can't just cave in to all their silly demands.
As far as the copyright infringment, they really have no case. I don't fiddle with their firmware chip at all, which I agree is copyrighted. I just plug in the Arrowhead DCU670 programmer, or any serial eprom programmer onto the board, and presto! You are in programming. It took me awhile to figure out all the programming locations, but I violated no law doing so. In the case of totally locked out panels, I can't help it if Brinks is stupid enough the use the customer's a*****t number as a lockout code. If all else fails, I use a $10 eprom eraser to wipe the eprom chip clean. Again, I violated no copyright laws doing so.
They can huff and puff all they like.
Jim Rojas
rifnraf wrote:
Any concern on your part that this is the begining of a trend and that more manuals are going to have to be pulled?
Who knows. We have be asked nicely to removed manuals before. Brinks didn't ask. They had their dogs (attorneys) do it for them.
Jim Rojas
Steve wrote:
If you do not charge for the books (now), perhaps it would serve as well to post them anonymously at alt.binaries.e-book.technical? At least then they get archived and can be downloaded via web search.
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