@rysiek@mstdn.socialIf you're wondering how things are going with the famous #DRM'd Polish trains, well, their manufacturer – #Newag – sued the hackers who had un-blocked them:
https://rys.io/en/175.html
But weirdly, after months of implying and suggesting that the locking code was added to the software by the hackers themselves, in the lawsuit the company now insists they did not in fact modify the software installed on the trains.
Why? Because that would not mesh well with the copyright infringement claim. 
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@rysiek@mstdn.socialA lawyer from Stefan Batory Foundation told me what he thinks of Newag's lawsuit:
> "Based on the media description of the case it seems that we might be talking about a so-called SLAPP"
> "It is in public interest interest that journalists and civil society watch this case closely and verify if it indeed is a case of SLAPP and an attempt to curtail freedom of expression"
During the first hearing, Newag requested that the whole trial be made non-public. The judge rejected that request.
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@rysiek Something I've not seen mentioned explicitly in this case but maybe you, having taken more interest, might know: did the original contract the train operating company signed for these trains specify any obligation to get the maintenance work done by Newag?
I assume not as it should have been mentioned but most of what I've read has been anti-Newag so I'm not sure.
@rysiek@mstdn.social@edavies in the specific case of the trains that were being maintained by SPS and which were the reason to hire the Dragon Sector guys to figure it out, the contract explicitly specified that maintenance *can* be provided by third party yards, and that Newag is supposed to provide all necessary documentation for that.
Newag seems to claim that "software is not documentation" when asked in public hearings about why the documentation provided by them was clearly not enough.
@rysiek Thank you, good to know for sure.
