Thread: A bill to fix America's most dangerous computer law
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Old 04-20-2015, 05:35 AM   #1
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A bill to fix America's most dangerous computer law
I read about this on Cory Doctorow's site, Boing Boing.

http://boingboing.net/2015/04/19/a-b...icas-most.html

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Senator Ron Wyden [D-OR] and Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO] have introduced legislation in the US Senate and House to fix one of the worst computer laws on the US statute books: section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which forbids breaking digital locks, even for lawful purposes.
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Wyden and Polis's Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation Act of 2015 goes a long way toward fixing this. It makes it unambiguously legal to break DRM for legal purposes -- so you could make a PVR that records your Netflix videos, a universal ebook reader that merges your Kobo, Ibooks and Kindle collections, or a drop-in replacement for Samsung's speech-to-text module that didn't record what you say in your living room and send it to third parties.
This certainly makes more sense than wating for the Library of Congress to decide, on a case-by-case basis, for which legal purposes we are allowed to break DRM.
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