This whole situation is screwed up, especially since it's actively harming the environment in direct contravention of their stated values, and Sonos is the only manufacturer I know of that does it. Who the hell came up with this idea?
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From what our eBay guy can tell, the bricking isn't even in hardware; you can't recover it if you're good with JTAG, because it's blacklisted as "recycled" on their servers. There's nothing stopping these things from working except Sonos says they can't.
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Replying to @Arlieth
As far as we could tell, yeah.
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Replying to @atomicthumbs @Arlieth
So realistically, the only way to recover the devices is just a custom firmware and reimplementing their servers locally?
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Which, I'm not speaking to the ethics of it here, I'm just saying, would almost certainly be a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA.
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Replying to @WhippleMarc @ShinyQuagsire and
That's not how the DMCA works. If you're replacing Sonos firmware with your own the DMCA has nothing to say, because you aren't accessing any copyrighted content.
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Replying to @marcan42 @ShinyQuagsire and
That depends on whether the firmware is allowing you to access copyrighted code on the device when you would otherwise not be able to do so. Since that includes the rest of the code in the firmware, unless you literally write a new firmware from scratch AND the device...
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Replying to @WhippleMarc @marcan42 and
... contains no other copyrighted code which you now have access to when you didn’t before, the question is not so simple as it might first appear.
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Replying to @WhippleMarc @ShinyQuagsire and
If you replace the whole firmware, then there is no copyrighted code (other than the bootrom, but Sonos didn't write that) left. At most there may be crypto keys in the hardware used for streaming stuff, but you can ignore them.
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Just because something exists somewhere doesn't mean it's magically a DMCA violation to do something nearby. You have to actually bypass an effective technical protection measure that gives you access to copyrighted content.
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