25 Feb
2006
25 Feb
'06
9:33 p.m.
On 2/25/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 18:54 -0600, Reuben Martin
wrote:
According to the guys behind Pxtools, the SCSI commands are cleartext.
So it's even worse than that, in my opinion. There is no possible way
that this should stand in court, but they're threatening anyhow...
For reference: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=127340&
Dana
Don't be so hard on Plextor (or RME for that
matter) Both have been
quite open providing developer kits and specs for OSS devs for many of
their products. Just because they may choose not to for some of their
products doesn't make them evil. It's their product and they can do
what they want with it. If you don't like it, buy something else.
The plextor situation is pretty bad - certain SCSI commands are
encrypted to make reverse engineering them a DMCA violation. If this is
the future of hardware we are f**ked - it won't be possible to run Linux
on a PC in 5 years. It's VERY important to let Plextor know that they
will be punished in the marketplace for this type of behavior.
Lee