Air Force hacks software to avoid licensing lockdown then ignores DMCA lawsuit

[thewayne]

It's good to be the king!

It's a somewhat complicated story involving software written by someone in the Air Force, but ultimately they broke the code written to control pirated software, and because the government can avoid law suits by claiming Sovereign Immunity, they can't be sued.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080804-air-force-cracks-software-carpet-bombs-dmca.html

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/04/2253246

Comments

[silveradept]

Nice to know that the laws apply equally to everyone. From the government's reasoning, though, it would be totally okay for studios to pirate each other, but not for an end user to avoid creating a security risk by bypassing studio-enforced malware.