[ale] Library of Congress adds DMCA exception for jailbreaking or rooting your phone -- Engadget

[Sparr]

There seems to be a sudden outbreak of common sense in the judiciary.
Another recent ruling states that it is not a violation of the DMCA to
break an access control mechanism if the use to which you are putting
the work is otherwise not a copyright infringement. In other words,
breaking DRM to make illegal copies is still a violation of both laws,
while breaking DRM to play a BluRay on a linux box was never a
traditional-copyright violation and is now no longer a DMCA violation.
This one will probably be overturned in the supreme court, but we can
hope not.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/07/23/29099.htm

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> The courts are starting to believe you actually own something when you buy
> it. Imagine that!
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/library-of-congress-adds-dmca-exception-for-jailbreaking-or-root/