Court: breaking DRM for a "fair use" is legal
http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2010/07/court-breaking-drm-for-a-fair-use-is-legal.ars

Quote :

"A federal appeals court has just ruled that breaking through a digital security system to access software doesn't trigger the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Any other interpretation of the DMCA, declared the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, would permit infringement liability for tapping into a work simply to "view it or to use it within the purview of 'fair use' permitted under the Copyright Act.""

7/27/2010 2:53:44 PM

1) we already have a thread
2) its not the death of DRM it's the exclusion of certain circumstances in breaking that are no longer considered illegal, many still are

7/27/2010 9:00:07 PM

ibtl

7/27/2010 11:09:05 PM

1) i searched for a DRM thread and didn't find one in tech talk, the closest thread is DRM removal or the RIAA thread, sure we talk about it a lot, but no single thread for it.
2) i couldn't think of a better name, and i was secretly hoping that this would open the door to more content providers wondering why they have DRM to begin with, aka, that DRM "would" die.

if you lock it, please point to the DRM thread and bump it to the top for me, kkthx.

7/28/2010 1:42:26 AM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=599340

7/28/2010 7:26:43 AM

ibtbucket

7/28/2010 7:36:05 AM