The news is seen as a victory against the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which forbids efforts to circumvent copy protection programs. Last month, a Russian hacker, Dmitri Skylarov was arrested under the DMCA for designing a...
The DMCA, which forbids any efforts to circumvent copy protection programs, caused controversy last summer when Russian hacker, Dmitri Skylarov was arrested under the act for designing a program that circumvents the copy protection on electronic...
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, has predicted the entertainment industry's push to force digital copy protection law onto video and TV is doomed to fail. He pointed to the software industry's failed attempts at controlling software piracy...
The project claims its work is protected under the "reverse engineering" clause in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which allows engineers to circumvent copy-protection software in order to allow computer programs to interoperate.
A House of Representatives subcommittee convened on Wednesday for the first hearing devoted to a proposal to change the DMCA, a 1998 law that broadly restricts bypassing copy-protection technologies used in DVDs, a few music CDs and some software...
The DMCA broadly restricts the bypassing of copy-protection technologies used in DVDs and in some music CDs and software programs. Since Apple refused to license its FairPlay copy-protection software to RealNetworks, the company had its engineers...
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