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    Jailbreaking declared fair use.

    Every three years, the Library of Congress has the thankless task of listening to people complain about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA forbade most attempts to bypass the digital locks on things like DVDs, music, and computer software, but it also gave the Library the ability to wave its magical copyright wand and make certain DRM cracks legal for three years at a time.

    This time, the Library went (comparatively) nuts, allowing widespread bypassing of the CSS encryption on DVDs, declaring iPhone jailbreaking to be "fair use," and letting consumers crack their legally purchased e-books in order to have them read aloud by computers.
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...-fair-use.ars?

    6 New exceptions to DMCA have been handed down by the US Library of congress. Good day for fair use.

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    Re: Jailbreaking declared fair use.

    In very specific circumstances for very specific uses. In the US.

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    Re: Jailbreaking declared fair use.

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    In very specific circumstances for very specific uses. In the US.
    Given the U.S's crusade have have every nation on Earth operating under their copyright system. What is Acta and what should I know about it? The huge amount of lobbying pressure,and successive governments quite happily just following America's lead on these things, It's important to pay attention to that side of the pond because it is coming here. It's an admittedly small but important victory.

    Those very specific circumstances are fair use, and you no longer face up to 10 years in federal prison and up to $500,000 in fines for exercising that right and while still pretty unlikely, they can and have extradited people to face copyright charges. Another reason to gaze across the pond.

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    Re: Jailbreaking declared fair use.

    We need to sort out our own archaic laws before we can even consider progressing to more complex things like breaking encryption systems in specific circumstances. We've yet to follow the US on copyright for example.

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    Re: Jailbreaking declared fair use.

    http://gizmodo.com/5596571/federal-j...m-for-fair-use

    Also a fairly interesting legal case.

    A judge of the 5th Circuit Appeals Court has ruled that circumventing DRM for non-infringing purposes isn't illegal, contrary to years of precedent.

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