April 30th, 2009

Anti-DMCA crusaders fight for the right to crack DRM

By Nate Anderson, Ars Technica

Every three years, the US Copyright Office reviews the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's most controversial section—the ban on circumventing DRM, even for legal uses...

The three-year exemption process looked so broken back in 2005 that the EFF issued a screed about how the process wasn't worth participating in. One of the authors was Fred von Lohmann, EFF's super-sharp copyright lawyer, who tomorrow will find himself defending not one but three new exemption requests. What changed?

Related Issues: DMCA, DMCA Rulemaking

Related Cases: 2009 DMCA Rulemaking

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