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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

the newag's narrative is generally bull; and the folks from the dragon sector do have legal representation.

also reverse engineering with the goal to make things interoperable is explicitly allowed by polish author's law (we do follow the continental copyright conventions in poland, so it's not entirely the same as what the common law countries understand as copyright)