Tektronix Uses DMCA Notice To Try To Stop Oscilloscope Hacking

Posted by BernardSwiss on Aug 8, 2014 5:50 AM EDT
Techdirt; By Mike Masnick
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Another day, another abuse of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions to stop things that have nothing whatsoever to do with copyright. As pointed out by Slashdot, the Hackaday site recently had a post about how to clone some Tektronix application modules for its MSO2000 line of oscilloscopes. The post explained a simple hack to enable the application module to do a lot more. And... in response, Tektronix sent a DMCA takedown notice demanding the entire post be taken down.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140806/07155928127/tektro...

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