Re: Brinks Home Security files Civil Suit against Jim Rojas & www.tech-man.com

["Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>send me their unwanted Brinks junk as a thank you.

Now I know why they went after you. You're a no good Brinks Board hoarder.
You could flood the market at any time and destroy their value. Now we're
talking serious stuff here.

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> For the record, I have never unlocked any Brinks panel for any end user.
> There is no point. If the consumer wants to make the slighest change to
> the system, they would have to send the board back, which makes no
> economic sense. I always suggest to the consumer to replace the system
> with something that is both keypad & remote programmable.
>
> Since I don't charge anything for my advice, most consumers after a
> reasonable amount of time, send me their unwanted Brinks junk as a thank
> you.
>
> Jim Rojas
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> Robert L Bass wrote:
>>> They can huff and puff all they like.
>>
>> You're going to wipe the floor with them.  BTW, as to the tortious
>> interference claim, that's also bogus.  Nowhere do they even allege that
>> you have enticed any current customer to breach a contract with them.
>>
>> Erasing or over-writing firmware does not constitute copyright
>> infringement any more than burning one of their manuals.  Since you're
>> not copying and distributing the firmware there's no infringement.  If I
>> understand things correctly, you receive a panel with the firmware
>> intact, erase or modify the lockout code and send it back to it's
>> (presumptive) owner.  That isn't a copyright infringement either since
>> you're not holding the thing for sale.
>>
>> The allegation that by reselling a panel you are infringing a copyright
>> on the "firmware" therein is also bogus since it is integral to the
>> hardware.  That would be like Ford saying that by reselling it's cars
>> you've stolen the copyrighted firmware in the engine computer.
>>
>> The biggest problem for you is going to be hiring a Texas lawyer and/or
>> going there occasionally.  No one in his right mind would want to go
>> there (let alone live there).