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.
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The conclusion is sure to irritate Steve Jobs: “On balance, the Register concludes that when one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses.”
Read the article to find out other DRM you can now legally crack/avoid/get around.
Apple loves you, don’t worry.
http://www.cultofmac.com/apples-official-response-to-dmca-jailbreak-exemption-it-voids-your-warranty/52463
It’s all for YOUR benefit and well being, trust them.
I am more interested in the fact that deCSS is now legal for listening to the DVDs I paid for. Next, I want a way to skip commercials and FBI warnings on DVDs that I paid for. I should immediately get to the menu.
Also the ebook hacking should allow ebooks to finally be adopted when it doesn’t matter if I have a Nook, a Kindle, a Kobo, a Sony Reader, or an iPad.