Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app.

• theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was actually forced onto the US by a clever US politician who pushed it into the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Europe also approved the treaty and I assume the European counterparts still stand.

  The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). By Decision 2000/278/EC of 16 March 2000, the Council of the European Union approved the treaty on behalf of the European Community. European Union Directives which largely cover the subject matter of the treaty are: Directive 91/250/EC, creating copyright protection for software; Directive 96/9/EC on copyright protection for databases; and Directive 2001/29/EC, prohibiting devices for circumventing “technical protection measures”, such as digital rights management (also known as DRM).

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  • sznowicki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We can still reverse engineer as long as it’s for compatibility for example. So building a FOSS app after reverse engineer the other one is fine. Especially if that bank doesn’t support your device.

    It’s still probably violating terms and stuff so they could just terminate your account.

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    • theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So would reverse engineering an app, so that you prevent it from doing things you don’t want it to do, be legal?

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      • sznowicki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        From what I understand from lawyers yes. Unless you want to sell it or something. But IANAL

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was aware of the treaty and its role in circumventing the democratic process, but was not aware that the anti-cirvumvention bullahit was part of it.

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    • theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The EU laws may not be worded so horrendously. I’m barely familiar with EU law beyond a little of the GDPR.

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