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Good news comes today, thanks in part to a tweet earlier today from Homebrew developer CrashSerious in that he mentions the EFF.org has produced a large PDF in its fight to get a number of changes made to the DMCA law in the USA, and one of them goes into heavy detail on why Jailbreaking should be allowed on Video Gaming Consoles!
In the matter of exemption to prohibition on circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies
Docket No. RM 2011-07
Comments of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
The comments are long, but worthwhile the reading, starting on page #19 going on up to page #37 the PS3 is mentioned a lot along with the Wii, and various 'homebrew' authors are mentioned also like 'ThatOtherPerson' and DeanK with his now world-famous 'Multiman' app.
Hopefully, the USA Govt. will listen to all these 'comments' by the EFF.org in Oct. 2012 which is the date on when what will be decided on what things should be allowed or not for the next few years under the DMCA law, of course the ESA and other groups will be filling their reasons of why NOT to allow Jailbreaking of consoles, we will report on the anti-side once their 300 pages of bullshit is released!
Of course even if the USA Govt. does the right thing, it does not help many other countries like Canada whom are about to pass the C-11 law which is worse then the current USA DMCA law, or other countries like UK that already passed bills that basically take all your freedoms away for life.
Good news comes today, thanks in part to a tweet earlier today from Homebrew developer CrashSerious in that he mentions the EFF.org has produced a large PDF in its fight to get a number of changes made to the DMCA law in the USA, and one of them goes into heavy detail on why Jailbreaking should be allowed on Video Gaming Consoles!
In the matter of exemption to prohibition on circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies
Docket No. RM 2011-07
Comments of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Pursuant to the Notice of Inquiry of Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies2 (“NOI”), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submits the following comments and respectfully asks the Librarian of Congress to exempt the following classes of works from 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1)’s prohibition on the circumvention of access control technologies for the period 2012-2015:
Proposed Class #2: Computer programs that enable lawfully acquired video game consoles to execute lawfully acquired software applications, where circumvention is undertaken for the purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications with computer programs on the gaming console.
In filing these comments, EFF represents the interests of the many U.S. citizens who have “jailbroken” their cellular phone handsets, tablets, and video game consoles—or would like to do so—to use lawfully obtained software of their own choosing.
Proposed Class #2: Computer programs that enable lawfully acquired video game consoles to execute lawfully acquired software applications, where circumvention is undertaken for the purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications with computer programs on the gaming console.
In filing these comments, EFF represents the interests of the many U.S. citizens who have “jailbroken” their cellular phone handsets, tablets, and video game consoles—or would like to do so—to use lawfully obtained software of their own choosing.
Hopefully, the USA Govt. will listen to all these 'comments' by the EFF.org in Oct. 2012 which is the date on when what will be decided on what things should be allowed or not for the next few years under the DMCA law, of course the ESA and other groups will be filling their reasons of why NOT to allow Jailbreaking of consoles, we will report on the anti-side once their 300 pages of bullshit is released!
Of course even if the USA Govt. does the right thing, it does not help many other countries like Canada whom are about to pass the C-11 law which is worse then the current USA DMCA law, or other countries like UK that already passed bills that basically take all your freedoms away for life.