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| From | Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> |
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Conservancy Files Petition for DMCA Exemptions for "Smart" TVs |
| Date | Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:25:22 +1100 |
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On 1/11/2014 2:44 PM, Rich wrote:
> http://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/oct/31/dmca-petition/
>
> Software Freedom Conservancy, with the pro-bono assistance of Tor
> Ekeland, P.C., filed today a petition for a proposed exception to the
> anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
> ("DMCA"). In its filing, Conservancy asks that the U.S. Copyright Office
> to legally permit circumvention of encryption for firmwares found on
> Smart TV products from manufacturers such as Samsung, Sony and LG.
> Conservancy's full Petition for Proposed Exemption under 17 U.S.C. ยง
> 1201 is available in PDF and in ODT format.
>
> By default, the DMCA prohibits users from examining and attempting to
> decrypt firmwares on these devices when the manufacturer has used
> Digital Restrictions Management ("DRM") to prohibit modification and
> augmentation of the software on the device. Most of these devices
> include software licensed under GPLv2, such as Linux and BusyBox, but
> the DMCA often legally stymies users' ability to installed modified
> versions of the firmware, even when the device manufacturer provides the
> complete, corresponding source for these components and "scripts used to
> control compilation and installation of the executable" (per
> requirements in the GPLv2). If granted, Conservancy's requested
> exemptions would liberate users of BusyBox/Linux-based encrypted
> firmwares to circumvent the encryption (if they find a technically
> feasible way of doing so), and such users would need not fear the harsh
> penalties under DMCA for disseminating information on how to circumvent
> such DRM.
>
> ...
>
Or people could just disseminate such information via associates in
Australia, where the legislature did something about this abuse of DCMA
in 2006.
Sylvia.
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Conservancy Files Petition for DMCA Exemptions for "Smart" TVs Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-11-01 03:44 +0000 Re: Conservancy Files Petition for DMCA Exemptions for "Smart" TVs Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-11-01 19:25 +1100
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