{"id":113,"date":"2007-09-28T13:31:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/hacked-not-voided\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T21:59:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T19:59:50","slug":"hacked-not-voided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/hacked-not-voided\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacked not Voided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while I was browsing the endless stream of pointless articles about iPhone this and iPhone that, I fell over <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/09\/25\/1136228\">this slashdot article<\/a> that mentioned the US <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnuson-Moss_Warranty_Act\">Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act<\/a> which basically says that a company cannot void a warranty just because the user has tampered with its software if the company cannot prove that the alternative software is to blame for the failure.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/rockboxes.png\" title=\"Lots of Rockbox Targets\" alt=\"Lots of Rockbox Targets\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;m not a lawyer or even in the US, but it certainly seems to be something that should apply for quite a few Rockbox users who have feared returning broken units to manufacturers with the Rockbox installation left intact. (Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archos.com\/\">Archos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iriver.com\/\">iriver<\/a> are known to have refused to service such players &#8211; but I guess neither of those cases actually were in the US with US customers.)<\/p>\n<p>It does however require that there is an existing written warranty in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>And then I figure the struggle for a mere single human being to fight against one of these companies claiming that Rockbox isn&#8217;t to blame could be more than just a little intimidating and probably just won&#8217;t happen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while I was browsing the endless stream of pointless articles about iPhone this and iPhone that, I fell over this slashdot article that mentioned the US Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act which basically says that a company cannot void a warranty just because the user has tampered with its software if the company cannot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/hacked-not-voided\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hacked not Voided<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}