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Forgive me, but wasn't it already legal, since it was special case'd in the DMCA? This whole situation confuses me.
by sukuriant 14y ago
Forgive me, but wasn't it already legal, since it was special case'd in the DMCA?
This whole situation confuses me.
- sinak 14y agoYou're right - this should have "again" concatenated on the end of the title string.
- DannyBee 14y agoIt was not special cased in the DMCA. The short, generalized answer is: The DMCA's DRM circumvention provision (the one that made it not legal to decrypting dvd's you own, etc) has an exemption process, run by the registrar of copyrights every 3 years. In 2010, they exempted unlocking phones. That exemption was not renewed during the rulemaking at the end of last year, and will expire on saturday. See http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ http://www.copyright.gov/1201/