Feds uphold jailbreaking laws on DVDs, game consoles, tablets
The U.S. Copyright Office published its new set of rules on whether people can jailbreak smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles today; it also outlined the guidelines on DVD copying.
Overwhelmingly, its conclusions were that besides smartphones, all of the above remain illegal.
Every three years the Copyright Office takes requests from digital rights proponents and opponents to re-examine the laws under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that dictate whether people can unlock or jailbreak their varied devices. Today, in a lengthy document (PDF), the government listed all of the…
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