Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of ...

Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU #CopyrightDirective, including #Article6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the #ChaosCommunicationsCongress in Hamburg this month - Germany is also a party to the #EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real - but so is the threat to conferences that host them:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

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