Comment on Apple blocked Beeper Mini’s iMessage Android app, but Beeper will keep pushing

• Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  that is protected by the DMCA?

  Reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is legal under DMCA.

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  • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TIL, that is very neat

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which is exactly what they’ve done.

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  • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That particular defense has historically been a little shaky. That said since it’s a corporation that would be using it in this case instead of some random hacker (in the MIT sense) or Chinese company it would have a better chance of holding up in court.

    I’m betting though that Apple won’t even bother with trying a DMCA based suit, but rather will argue some kind of TOS violations.

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