Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] The Right to Hack - US Law Approves

begin  oe_protect.scr 
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on
>| their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers
>| under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.
> `----
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061123/ap_on_hi_te/digital_copyright
> 
> More openness and less restrictions for a change. A recently-passed law in
> the UK had the opposite effect.
> 
> Also today:
> 
> Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological
> Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works
> 
> http://www.copyright.gov/1201/

Well, you can get your phone opened up at most markets and boot sales.

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Love means nothing to a tennis player.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index