I was wondering when this was going to happen. With software modification being criminalized by the millenium copyright act, when was hardware going to demand the same protections. This article from MIT TechReview talkes about new legal challenges to owners' right to reverse engineer and thus modify hardware. I think this is a dangerous trend that truly means what consumers do not own what they purchase. Ownership is forever maintained by the manufacturere/patent holder not the consumer. This also has implications for trade secretes, since it is legal to reverse engineer a trade secret, now has it become illegal to do so?
I personally do not think the patent system is broken, as people who read the RIM debacle have been force fed. Patents are the ultimate tool for the individual, the little guy, against corporations. In very few cases, this comes with a small price, but a price well worth facilitating individual acheivement and innovation.
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