Woot! It is now LEGAL to rip DVDs and jailbreak/root or unlock your phone!
07-26-2010 | 01:57 PM
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Woot! It is now LEGAL to rip DVDs and jailbreak/root or unlock your phone!
Apparently there's a clause in the DMCA law (the law that makes it illegal to do all sorts of things to copyrighted material) that says it has to be reviewed every three years and this is one of those years. This year they passed 6 exemptions to DMCA including two big ones!
You how it was legal for you to rip your CD collection to your PC or mp3 player but it was illegal for you to rip your DVD movie collection? Not anymore! Finally! I wonder if Real Player will be able to get their DVD ripping/movie organization software released now? They got the shit sued out of them as soon as they announced it and it was never released and recently the case had been closed on their software and it was deemed ILLEGAL! Now it's not.
2nd exemption is it's now legal to jailbreak or root and unlock your phone to use on another network! I wonder if Apple and others will still try to stop this with every update?
There's three more new exemptions that you can read here!
http://gizmodo.com/5596677/drm-buste...-means-for-you
You how it was legal for you to rip your CD collection to your PC or mp3 player but it was illegal for you to rip your DVD movie collection? Not anymore! Finally! I wonder if Real Player will be able to get their DVD ripping/movie organization software released now? They got the shit sued out of them as soon as they announced it and it was never released and recently the case had been closed on their software and it was deemed ILLEGAL! Now it's not.
2nd exemption is it's now legal to jailbreak or root and unlock your phone to use on another network! I wonder if Apple and others will still try to stop this with every update?
There's three more new exemptions that you can read here!
http://gizmodo.com/5596677/drm-buste...-means-for-you
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07-26-2010 | 02:35 PM
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You how it was legal for you to rip your CD collection to your PC or mp3 player but it was illegal for you to rip your DVD movie collection? Not anymore! Finally! I wonder if Real Player will be able to get their DVD ripping/movie organization software released now? They got the shit sued out of them as soon as they announced it and it was never released and recently the case had been closed on their software and it was deemed ILLEGAL! Now it's not.
Originally Posted by Gizmodo
First, and arguably most importantly, is an exemption for DVDs you legally own, giving everyone (not just film and media studies majors!) the right to break DRM for the purposes of "short" use in both "documentary filmmaking" and original "noncommercial videos." The first is rather specific, of course, but the broadness of the latter is impressive—although for now you can't appropriate the entire film. But as long as you aren't charging money for it or profiting off it, it's noncommercial. So go ahead, rip and remix a scene from Inception so that it actually makes sense.
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07-26-2010 | 03:15 PM
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Good to see twelve years of precedent being overturned and the Library of Congress actually listening to the average consumer instead of the major studios who have gone way to far with some of the DMCA laws. There is no reason I shouldn't be allowed to store all the media I own on my own computer and no reason I shouldn't be allowed to tweak any device that I have purchased as long as it is used in a legal manner.
07-26-2010 | 04:55 PM
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They just clarified whats fair use and whats not.
Yes you can jail break your phone and/or install another OS.
No you still can't (legally) download Apps/Software without paying for them, which is the reason why the vast majority of people jail break their phones.
Yes you can jail break your phone and/or install another OS.
No you still can't (legally) download Apps/Software without paying for them, which is the reason why the vast majority of people jail break their phones.
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07-27-2010 | 12:05 AM
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link doesn't apply, since we're discussing DVDs.
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