Texas Instruments: still harassing hobbyists

Texas Instruments has dropped its spurious DMCA threats against hobbyists who’d blogged about potential mods to the company’s programmable graphing calculators. Researchers were able to reverse-engineer signing keys , “allowing modders to install custom operating systems and unlock new functionality in the calculators’ hardware,” said the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). In response , “TI unleashed a torrent of demand letters claiming that the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) required the hobbyists to take down commentary about and links to the keys,” it said.

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