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    <published>2010-07-26T18:28:06Z</published>
    <updated>2010-07-29T21:05:11Z</updated>
    <title>Jailbreaking and Ripping DVDs Now Legal in One Fell Swoop!</title>
    <summary>The copyright overlords have shined brightly this day upon us jailbreakers, phone unlockers, and DVD rippers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today won three exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions, which will bring a smile to...</summary>
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      <name>Tom Keating</name>
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      <![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img width="147" height="93" alt="" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/american-flag.jpg" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;" /></span>The copyright overlords have shined brightly this day upon us jailbreakers, phone unlockers, and DVD rippers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) <a href="http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26">today won three exemptions</a> to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions, which will bring a smile to those that enjoy the freedom to do with their legally owned iPhones and DVDs/Blurays as they please. In short, you have the right to: jailbreak your phone, install any app you please, use your mobile phone on any network (unlock), and copy DVDs/Blurays. This is <i>huge</i> news to pirates, hackers, and legitimate users simply trying to use their mobile phone on any mobile network. Hollywood and carriers are not happy campers today - everyone else across the Internet is shouting for joy! <br /><br />Check out these exemptions straight from the <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/1201/">Librarian of Congress</a>:<br /> <p class="indented_block">(1) Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully  made and        acquired  and that are  protected by the Content Scrambling System  when circumvention is accomplished  solely in order to accomplish the  incorporation of short portions of motion  pictures into new works for  the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the  person engaging in  circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for  believing that  circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in  the  following instances:</p> <blockquote> <p class="indented_block">(i)&#160;  Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and  university film and media studies students;<br /> (ii)  Documentary filmmaking;<br /> (iii)  Noncommercial videos.</p> </blockquote> <p class="indented_block">(2)  Computer programs that enable  wireless telephone handsets to execute software  applications, where  circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of  enabling  interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully   obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.</p> <p class="indented_block">(3)  Computer programs, in the form of  firmware or software, that enable used  wireless telephone handsets to  connect to a wireless telecommunications  network, when circumvention is  initiated by the owner of the copy of the  computer program solely in  order to connect to a wireless telecommunications  network and access to  the network is authorized by the operator of the network.</p> <p class="indented_block">(4)  Video games accessible on personal  computers and protected by technological protection  measures that  control access to lawfully obtained works, when circumvention is   accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing for,  investigating,  or correcting security flaws or vulnerabilities, if:</p> <blockquote> <p class="indented_block">(i)&#160;  The information derived from the  security testing is used primarily to promote  the security of the owner  or operator of a computer, computer system, or  computer network; and<br /> (ii)  The information derived from the security testing is used  or maintained in a  manner that does not facilitate copyright  infringement or a violation of  applicable law.</p> </blockquote> <p class="indented_block">(5)  Computer programs protected by  dongles that prevent access due to malfunction  or damage and which are  obsolete.&#160; A dongle shall be considered obsolete  if it is no longer  manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer  reasonably  available in the commercial marketplace; and</p> <p class="indented_block">(6)  Literary works distributed in ebook  format when all existing ebook editions of  the work (including digital  text editions made available by authorized  entities) contain access  controls that prevent the enabling either of the  book's read-aloud  function or of screen readers that render the text into a  specialized  format.</p>Wow. All I can say is wow. Finally "fair use" has won out over tyrannical copyright rules. In addition to Hollywood and carriers having a bad day, I'm sure Steve Jobs is somewhere drop kicking his iPad after reading the news.<br />]]>
      
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    <title>Comment from Tom on 2010-07-28</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Oh joyous day!</p>

<p>Freedom!<br />
</p>]]>
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    <published>2010-07-28T13:08:04Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Rich the Rock Speaker Guy on 2010-09-17</title>
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        <name>Rich the Rock Speaker Guy</name>
        <uri>http://www.rockoutdoorspeakers.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Great news! Not like they were stopping anyone anyways though.</p>]]>
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    <published>2010-09-17T23:13:20Z</published>
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