Another note from the Reg article:
This finally fixes a LOT of things that were bad about the DMCA. Not all, but it's a damn good start.
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Quote:In addition to the three EFF petitions, the Copyright Office also granted exemptions to the DMCA. These cover: "good faith testing for, investigating, or correcting security flaws or vulnerabilities" of DRM-protected video games, the need to circumvent software-protection dongles when the companies that supplied them are out of business and "if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available," and - finally - bypassing an ebook's DRM to enable a "read-aloud function or... screen readers that render the text into a specialized format."
This finally fixes a LOT of things that were bad about the DMCA. Not all, but it's a damn good start.
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