U.S. Copyright Office Declares Some Forms of DRM Circumvention Legal

[This is good news][link], and a big step in getting consumers rights back over the things they own. [Here is the full ruling][full] (via Gruber). [Ars Technica has a more non-lawyer-friendly rundown of the changes][ars].

[full]: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ “U.S. Copyright Office – Anticircumvention Rulemaking”
[link]: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26 “EFF Press Release”
[ars]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/apple-loses-big-in-drm-ruling-jailbreaks-are-fair-use.ars “Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use””


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