Have to just keep on posting this everywhere...
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960731.html
This is my favorite part of this:
• Bypassing technological protections would be permissible if done for legitimate "fair-use" purposes. The bill says it would not be a violation of federal law to "circumvent a technological measure"--as long as it does not lead to "an infringement of the copyright in the work."
That just about sums up the objections I have to the DMCA.
My fair use of software, music, and just about everything else is all but totally gone under the DMCA. And this would at least help to restore some of those rights.
I would still need third party software (to de-code, and open the software), a lawyer (to explain the EULA software comes with nowadays), and a degree in techno-geek to know how to do this...
But I would at least have the right to use the CD-R burner that I bought. And I might even have the right to listen to some of the songs from my CD's. Even (heaven forbid) make a CD of my own that actually has music on it that I like (without the other fourteen songs I can't stand).
You get the idea...
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