[Year 12 IT Apps] Jailbreaking your iPhone and ripping DVDs: Both now perfectly legal

[Mark KELLY]

On a similar note, you should know that DVD region encoding has no support
under copyright or any other law, and you are free to use any means to
circumvent region limitations imposed by movie distributors.

On 27 July 2010 14:16, Anderson, Stuart L <
anderson.stuart.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

>  Interesting article leading into Unit 4 Outcome 2
>
> Under *a list of just-handed-down exemptions*<http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-1201-Statement.html>to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
> *it is no longer illegal to jailbreak your phone or to circumvent a DVD’s
> Content Scramble System for the purpose of copying portions of its content
> *<http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/26/technology/iphone_jailbreaking/index.htm>.
> Every three years, the Library of Congress examines copyright law in order
> to suggest revisions; today’s DMCA amendments are some of the biggest yet.
> The U.S. Copyright Office’s decision makes it possible for anyone to, say,
> jailbreak their iPhone in order to run “unauthorized” software or use
> another service provider besides AT&T, and effectively does away with
> Apple’s ability to threaten those who jailbreak their phones with legal
> action. Of course, it doesn’t mean that jailbreaking has been officially
> sanctioned: Apple is still well within its rights to void your warranty, and
> you definitely shouldn’t expect tech support to help you through the
> process. It just means they can’t sue you for doing it, which is always nice
> to hear.
>
>
> http://www.avclub.com/articles/jailbreaking-your-iphone-and-ripping-dvds-both-now,43498/
>
>   *Stuart Anderson*
> VCE Accounting and IT Applications teacher
> Kambrya College
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