Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Now legal in the U.S.: 6 big changes to DMCA - still to be illegal in Canada?


Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone, ripping a DVD for educational purposes
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The six “classes” now exempt from prosecution under the DMCA are:

1. Defeating a lawfully obtained DVD’s encryption
2. Jailbreaking for apps
3. Jailbreaking for services
4. Circumventing video game encryption (DRM)
5. Cracking computer programs protected by dongles
6. Having an ebook be read aloud"

Given that the Conservative government in Canada is eager to play monkey-see monkey-do with American policy, I wonder how this will affect the the current state of their new digital rights bill, Bill C-32. The conservatives have been holding firm to their belief that corporations should have the right to sue the pants off private citizens for exactly these reasons.

Michael Geist - The U.S. DMCA vs. Bill C-32: Comparing the Digital Lock Exceptions

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