Digital copyright laws are a tough issue to keep up with and enforce for law-makers. The rapid change in technological capabilities and software/hardware available to the public and media manufacturers changes as fast as laws can be drafted and put into effect, but the Digital Millennium Copyright Act tries to keep things current by allowing the Library of Congress to review DRM exceptions every three years. This year, some (semi)major changes came into effect. Rather than write all this out, I'll give you the link:
Listing of exemptions made this year
Gizmodo's take on it
So the big takeaways for me:
Now I can legally jailbreak my iPad, allowing it to do all those little things that I wish it could do before but Mother-Apple didn't see fit to allow me to do. I may try it out tonight if I have time.
Also, I can take clips from movies and use them for my own "non-commercial" videos...okay, that doesn't really concern me since I don't really make videos, but I can see that news as exciting. Now I can watch Pokemon/Family guy mash-up videos anytime I want!
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