Comments | tishaturk: DMCA: three for three.

tishaturk

DMCA: three for three.

Oct 27, 2015 22:33

Once again, the OTW and EFF persuaded the copyright office to grant vidders (and other makers of noncommercial remix video) a DMCA exemption! The Librarian of Congress 1) renewed the existing exemptions (which allow us to circumvent DRM on DVDs and digital downloads) and 2) added Blu-Ray.

You can read the EFF's account or read the ruling itself\o ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

killabeez October 28 2015, 13:32:17 UTC

Fantastic news! *twirls you!*

tishaturk October 28 2015, 18:27:47 UTC

Wheeeee! *is twirled*

sabaceanbabe October 28 2015, 17:06:02 UTC

That's awesome news! \o/ Now if only I could find easy-to-use software to rip modern DVDs...

tishaturk October 28 2015, 18:28:22 UTC

What are you using? My old software has been working fine, though I'm not sure how modern my DVDs are...

rhoboat October 28 2015, 18:51:10 UTC

Yay!!

tishaturk October 29 2015, 23:12:46 UTC

SO MUCH YAY.

laura47 October 29 2015, 17:05:41 UTC

huzzah!

tishaturk October 29 2015, 23:13:07 UTC

I hate that we keep having to do this, but I LOVE THAT WE KEEP WINNING.