3 ms·

These exemptions have to be renewed every 3 years. The 2018 exemptions for "jailbreaking" phones and tablets are still in force, but they will expire if not ren

• celestialcheese 5y ago
  There's work happening to make these permanent. [1] Until that happens, there are tireless volunteers and organizations lobbying for these exemptions every 3 years. [1] - https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2020/06/29/copyright-office-begins-period-petitioning-exemptions-section-1201-dmca/id=122887/ https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2020/06/29/copyright-office-begin...
• saurik 5y ago
  This was changed in the last cycle or so so if there aren't people challenging petitions they get semi-automatic renewals. Honestly, for unlocking bootloaders (note I initially wrote this comment in the mental context of carrier unlocks and then immediately went and edited it as I realized) we probably never needed the exemptions anyway, as there is a standing exempting for interop (which still does most of the work: the argument for the extra exemption is to provide one last step for the end-user as in 2009 it wasn't clear they could run the result, but currently everyone things they should be).