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AlyssaRowan on Oct 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: FTDI driver kills fake FTDI FT232s

These guys are apparently Glaswegian, so Scottish law. Computer Misuse Act territory, perhaps, in my (lay) opinion?

They aren't the first to do malicious copy-protection. It did not go well for the previous contenders. At all.

iolsantr on Oct 23, 2014 [–]

They may be from scottland, but I bet anyplace they distribute their driver can claim jurisdiction. After all, the crime (or tort or whatever it is) is not writing the offending driver, but distributing it to an unsuspecting public.

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