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Separation Of Ownership And The Authorization To Use Personal Computers: Unintended Effects Of Eu And U.S. Law On It Security, Lukas Feiler
Separation Of Ownership And The Authorization To Use Personal Computers: Unintended Effects Of Eu And U.S. Law On It Security, Lukas Feiler
Lukas Feiler
It used to be that owners of personal computers typically had full and exclusive authorization to use their computers. This was primarily due to the open architecture introduced with the IBM Personal Computer in the 1980s and proliferated in the 1990s. Recent developments bear evidence of an increasing disconnection between the concept of ownership and that of authorization to use a personal computer (including mobile devices such as notebooks, sub-notebooks, cell phones, smartphones, and PDAs): interference with the closed architecture employed by Apple’s iPhone is claimed to constitute a violation under 17 U.S.C. § 1201; the EULA for Windows 7 …