U.S. Copyright Office has new updated DMCA rules (Apple iPhone jailbeaking is fully legal now!)
July 26th, 2010 Leave a comment Visited 261 times, 1 so far today
U.S. Copyright Office has new updated DMCA rules
TechCrunch has reported that U.S. Copyright Office has come out with some awesome news for the users in the US market.
They have made some changes to the DMCA rules. Most of these are positive in nature when it comes to consumers
Here are some of the highlights…
It is now legal to break the DRM on DVDs for fair use.
It is now legal to jailbreak a mobile phone to run legal apps.
It is now legal to jailbreak a mobile phone to run it on a different network.
It is now legal to break the DRM of a videogame for fair use.
It is now legal to break hardware based DRM if the hardware lock is no longer available in market.
And so on!
One of the biggest implications? Apple iPhone jailbreak is legal now. Running third party apps on it is legal now. Apple really lost out in this updated DMCA edition!
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, dmca, DRM, TechCrunch, U.S. Copyright Office, USA
Manuj Kumar
Category: News
Today's Popular Posts
- GM OnStar could soon start supporting Facebook (30 views)
- Google serves a billion users every week (29 views)
- Google admits Instant search would affect Analytics and Ad impressions (21 views)
- What does Honda Unicorn means for the Indian Market? (13 views)
- Hyundai India second plant in Tamil Nadu (12 views)
- Microsoft vs. Google: Lawsuit over Kai-Fu Lee (12 views)
- Maruti A-Star First Impression (11 views)
- Google launches Google Instant search engine! (10 views)
- New Cars to enter Indian market in 2008 (9 views)
- Negroponte's $100 laptop computer to cost $135 initially (9 views)
Apple Apple Apple iPhone Apple iPhone 3G AT&T automobiles Automotive News Business News Cars Data Storage - Hard Disks - Flash Memory Digital Media Digital Music - Players Google Google Android Hardware Hardware News India Internet Laptops Main News Market Research Market Rumors Microsoft Mobile Devices mobile Services Networks News Nokia notebooks Online Advertisement Personalities Processor News Rumors Search Search Engine Search Engine News smartphones Software News Space, NASA, ISRO News Telephony USA Web Services Wireless-Mobile Yahoo YouTube
