how many exceptions
maybe the initial rule is broken
In its latest interpretation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the US Copyright Office has relaxed the legal restrictions that deter security researchers and enthusiasts from analyzing and tinkering with protected content on digital devices. At the same time, the revised rules allow for only limited game console …
You forget about the ineffability of the lawmakers... ;-)
And this law has been really a weird one from my point of view. Adding the phantastic names the Yanks seem to attach to all of those only make them even weirder ;-p
But you are right, of course, and that is a very sensible suggestion. There's not much hope that "sensible" is any major driving factor at the moment, especially not for these things. (actually since they are constantly expanding the exceptions, people might actually have some sense).
Yeah, the next "exception" ought to be GETTING RID OF DMCA and just using the prior copyright law to go after infringers who aren't merely engaging in "fair use".
But THAT would make TOO MUCH COMMON SENSE. *INSTEAD* we end up with BUREAUCRATS making this and that dictate in order to justify their own existence and intrusion into our lives.
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from the article: "the [..] equivalent of Groundhog Day – a film in which the protagonist lives one day over and over"
Yeah, that's totally not popular culture, and noone has seen that movie at least twice. Aaand it is totally not the first comparison that would come to mind.
[Wiens said]: "we’re going to be stuck on this Ferris wheel with the Copyright Office every three years"
Alright - they haven't seen it. So people who have are now officially "old people", right?
F***.
"[Wiens said]: "we’re going to be stuck on this Ferris wheel with the Copyright Office every three years"
Alright - they haven't seen it. So people who have are now officially "old people", right?"
He may have been referring to Bueller to put a different slant on it while still retaining the "pop culture" reference.
No doubt to stop you from going inside the console to fix the optical drive the next batch of PS and Xbox consoles will come without an internal optical drive and it will be an optional external add on if you want one.
After all most games need to download gigabytes of updates before you can play them even with the discs and people have got more used to going without physical media for movies, music and other none game software.
Well, considering that Sony has been going after third party companies who are making "unauthorized" vanity skins for the PS5, they have even less sympathy from me than before...
(This is the same Sony that put rootkits on audio CDs, directly gave us CSS and the shenanigans for the Blur-ray CES, and a whole host of other anti-consumer behaviors.)
Luckly DMCA is a US-specific legislation, and USA does not have jurisdiction or power over other countries to enforce it.
Old but gold:
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