A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology’s E-Meter—and lots of other electronics, too.
A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology’s E-Meter—and lots of other electronics, too.
Full article here (wayback machine; the original was partially behind a paywall for me).
All the scientology malarkey aside, it’s bananas to me that anything electronic is the purview of the US Copyright Office. It’s insane to me that the RIAA/MPAA et. al. lobbies have been so successful in getting the US government to do their bidding.