American laws actually in favor of a little bit of piracy freedoms?

[★☆ neck535]

The DRM laws of 1998 have been revised... for the better .... read this:

The actual ruling lays out 6 new instances where DRM can be circumvented:

(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:

(i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students; (ii) Documentary filmmaking; (iii) Noncommercial videos.
(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.

(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.

(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:

(i) 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 (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.

(5) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. 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

(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.
In a nutshell:

-You have the right to circumvent content scrambling and make copies of short portions of DVDs that you own if you’re using them for educational demonstration purposes (this was already okay), if you’re using them for critique or commentary, documentary filmmaking or noncommercial use.
-You have the right to jailbreak your phone and the manufacturer can’t brick it because of this. You bought it, you can do with it what you want and Apple for example can’t make it not work because they don’t like how you’re using it.
-Circumventing DRM on software is okay as long as you’re doing it for “security research”
-You have the right to break DRM on ebooks for the purpose of making an audio copy. Amazon had previously bitched about this, saying that it would hurt sales of audio books. But honestly, I’ve made text-to-speech copies of books with the text freely available online and while I’m sure it’s better than nothing if you’re blind, an actual audiobook is far preferable.

[^UG^ TheWildDog]

Originally Posted by neck535 Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.

The DRM laws of 1998 have been revised... for the better .... read this:

I particularly love the terms ''for education'' and for ''non commercial uses'' :)

caveman, can you teach me how to ''crick-.....-crock'' a game? ...for my ''education''? lol

[Sweak2000]

So this is an expansion or an explanation of fair use?

[^UG^ Shaman]

bluh bluh bluh.......
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[★☆ neck535]

Originally Posted by Sweak2000 Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.

So this is an expansion or an explanation of fair use?

explanation.... as far as I can see.... most of this parallels previous ideas about written and audio/video works

[Sweak2000]

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