I am an electrical engineer and what I read from this, aside from the restrains on streaming, is that someone is afraid that little short people in China are going to reverse engineer node boards and sell them cheap on Ebay or such. Or maybe even clever engineers in the USA could do it. Just my thoughts, but I could be way off. Some people make a living off reverse engineering products and reselling them under a generic label. It could be happening as we read this series of messages about not giving away "intellectual property", legally speaking. The thing is, it will be almost impossible to prevent it from ever happening. But, if someone is identified as the person that provided that product for reverse engineering, or participated in that effort, that person could be liable for whatever happens after that from what I read in that legal mumbo jumbo.

Interesting thought. I don't think the checksum that I heard would be used to detect programming changes would detect a color DMD, as the actual code is not affected. Perhaps that in itself would not brick a machine. That is not to say that Stern would still not allow it...