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**Are you the copyright holder or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf?** | ||
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Yes, I am authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. | ||
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**Please describe the nature of your copyright ownership or authorization to act on the owner's behalf.** | ||
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I am writing on behalf of CASIO, which is a member of REACT (also known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Network ). REACT actively fights the trade-in counterfeiting products on behalf of its members. Additional information about our organization can be found at www.react.org. | ||
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**Please provide a detailed description of the original copyrighted work that has allegedly been infringed. If possible, include a URL to where it is posted online.** | ||
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It came to our attention that the below-mentioned repository is using copyrighted source code in order to modify Casio's copyrighted program. | ||
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https://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=004&pid=729 | ||
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**What files should be taken down? Please provide URLs for each file, or if the entire repository, the repository’s URL.** | ||
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The entire repository is infringing. In accordance with your Guide, I explicitly confirm that all of the content at the URL infringes. | ||
Repository URL: https://github.com/Neutrino-1/Hack-Casio-Calculator | ||
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**Have you searched for any forks of the allegedly infringing files or repositories? Each fork is a distinct repository and must be identified separately if you believe it is infringing and wish to have it taken down.** | ||
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The code the repository contains is proprietary and not to be publicly published. The hosted content is a direct, literal copy of our client’s work. | ||
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**Is the work licensed under an open source license? If so, which open source license? Are the allegedly infringing files being used under the open source license, or are they in violation of the license?** | ||
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The proprietary, copyrighted, nature of the code is, inter alia, evidenced by the reference to Casio domains and internal properties. | ||
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**What would be the best solution for the alleged infringement? Are there specific changes the other person can make other than removal? Can the repository be made private?** | ||
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I hereby summon you to take expeditious action: to remove or to disable access to the infringing content immediately, but in any case no later than ten days as of today. | ||
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**Do you have the alleged infringer’s contact information? If so, please provide it.** | ||
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We were not able to reach this user directly for they have not included up-to-date contact information in the repo or their profile page. | ||
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**I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law.** | ||
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**I have taken <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/topics/22">fair use</a> into consideration.** | ||
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**I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.** | ||
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**I have read and understand GitHub's <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice/">Guide to Submitting a DMCA Takedown Notice</a>.** | ||
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**So that we can get back to you, please provide either your telephone number or physical address.** | ||
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**Please type your full legal name below to sign this request.** | ||
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I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Casio's lawyers committing perjury like its no big deal. SMH
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Yet another example of a completely fraudulent DMCA claim. I really hope the EFF picks this one up and exposes the perjury committed by Casio here.
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What does the repository in question do?
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Why did you take the person's identity out? We deserve to know which lawyer is openly lying under oath, so that we can avoid their services forever
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@iomintz - it's the driver software that someone used when they added a screen to their calculator for cheating. The screen is very hard to see when turned off.
Casio is probably panicing because the only reason they can charge $150 for a calculator that's 20 years old is because teachers believe it's difficult to cheat on.
The lawyer is claiming that the driver software invokes Casio's software somehow. However, the cheating screen is 100% independent of the calculator; they literally just cut a hole in the device and added a different device. There's no relationship between the stuff in the repo and Casio's software at all.
The lawyer will probably fall back to hiding behind "I didn't know any better." I'm not sure they should be allowed to feign ignorance; they made an affirmative claim under oath in order to threaten someone else and demand changes.
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Basically an arduino or something drives a small LCD hidden in the solar cell window. More info here: https://gizmodo.com/calculator-hacked-for-cheating-includes-a-secret-oled-s-1843314318
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How about getting lawyers with an iota of technical knowledge? This is a fraudulent DMCA takedown
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@StoneCypher This line of calculators actually ranges $10 to $25.
I agree that it is completely separate. Judging by the youtube video, Neutrino-1 never extracted or reverse engineered any Casio firmware or even electronics. The software is all Neutrino-1's own work, plus Arduino libraries.
This device has no circuit connection anywhere to the calculator -- it could run independently, with the calculator PCB removed, or in any other calculator as long as there is a proper sized hole for the OLED display.
Neutrino-1 says they already filed a DMCA counter-notice. I hope Github puts this back up, and then tells React that, because of their bad-faith perjury here, they won't be able to send any more DMCA takedown notices to Github without apologizing, firing the lawyer involved, and documenting extensive measures to prevent this in the future.
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That could be or should be a bad joke.
modding an old Casio calculator, adding some 3rd party components while never doing anything with the calculator code integrity has nothing in common with a software hack of the calculator.
Zealous REACT lawyer team should accept their error and apologize.
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They always redact personally identifying information, whether that's an individual making the takedown notice or an attorney.
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This is absurd. Is gluing a wristwatch to a Casio calculator also a DMCA violation?
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Once again, big corps willfully and uncaringly breaking the law with fraudulent DMCAs, knowing the GitHub repository holder likely doesn't have the funds to face them in court. Utterly disgusting behavior by Casio and REACT. The DMCA needs to be overhauled badly to stop this exploitation, it's a recurring problem, not just on GitHub.
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If I ever need a new calculator, it ain't gonna be CASIO. This cements that.
This is such nonsense. What part of putting an open sourced Arduino board and uploading free open source libraries and adding some custom open source code, infringe on Casio's IP now?
@pierow2k I set my Casio on fire, thus infringing on Casio's proprietary Halt and Catch fire routines.
(unnecessary note for people who need unnecessary notes. I did not set anything on fire, this is merely a joke)
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And on the other side of story you have Texas Instruments that are providing calculator for free to tinkers to hack and overclock.
Well we all know who to choose from now on, don't we?
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Don't be too quick to praise Texas Instruments. They've done sketchy DMCAs in the past as well.
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@ekv88 Sure they do on their older series. But even the TI-84 CE is receiving a new firmware upgrade that blocks all third party native code. And the newest series, the TI-Nspire, has never had third-party native code support, leaving people to find exploits. The latest OSes (including the only OS that runs on their latest model) don't have public exploits yet, although they're being worked on.