07.08.2014 - 17:51 [ Techdirt ]

Tektronix Uses DMCA Notice To Try To Stop Oscilloscope Hacking

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.