I believe the previous LoC rulemaking exemption already permitted the decryption of blocking sw blacklists. No change here.
-Declan On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:45:30PM -0500, BillyGOTO wrote: > White smoke from the chimney of the L of C... > > As of now, it is now explicitly legal to decrypt the blacklists of > NetNanny - style applications. > > As of now, it is now explicitly legal to RevEng abandonware dongles. > Also legal to break copy-restriction schemes on abandonware. > > The most surprising exemption is for eBook decription. It is only > allowed if you can't otherwise render the text into a 'specialized > format'. > > ----- Forwarded message from Phil Gengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Within the last 5 minutes, the LOC website > (http://www.copyright.gov/1201) posted the determinations for DMCA > exemptions from the May hearings. > > Interesting read, if nothing else. 4 classes of works were exempted, > and for several that weren't, there's an explanation of why.
