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Apple Loses Big In Drm Ruling Which Says Jail Breaks Are Fair Use

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by Nate Anderson, for Ars Technica
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Jul 26 2010 2:36pm EDT

Tonight There's Gonna Be a Jail Break

Ars Technica reports: 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.

For more on the various impacts of this decision, such as DVDs and iPhones and e-books, read the full report on Ars Technica.

Nate Anderson is Senior Editor for Ars Technica.

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