Diebold smacked down
Woo Hoo.
Diebold–makers of the easily cracked electronic voting machines–abused the DMCA last year by trying to suppress people who exposed the gaping holes in their software, software they want to use to decide America’s elections.
A California judge smacked Diebold down yesterday. Joy!
Diebold will have to pay the students and the ISP their attorney fees, court costs and various other damages, which Seltzer said will probably be in the “low six figures.” Seltzer said the figure wasn’t going to bankrupt Diebold but she said that was never their goal.
The ruling makes Diebold the first company to be held liable for violating section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which makes it unlawful to use the DMCA takedown threats when the copyright holder knows that infringement hasn’t occurred.
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