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Now That The President Has To Respond To The Phone Unlock Petition, Let's...
In October of 2012, the Library of Congress elected not to renew DMCA exemptions that explicitly allow end users to unlock their cell phones at will, thus ending a six year tradition. This has made a...
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White House Officially Responds To Cell Phone Unlock Petition: "We Agree"
We've been waiting on this for a couple weeks now and the White House has finally come through with its response to the cell phone unlock petition. The short version, for the tl;dr crowd is simple:...
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Now We're Getting Somewhere: U.S. Senator Introduces Bill To Allow Carrier...
Two days ago, the White House announced its support for carrier unlocking handsets. The administration promised an FCC/NTIA investigation as well as a willingness to "work with Congress" on legislation...
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AT&T: 'We Unlock Our Customers' Devices', Claims New Ban Will Not Negatively...
Most of the time, major corporations like to cushion their words so that, in the event of a PR disaster, it's easier to walk back its statements. Today, an AT&T exec in charge of public policy...
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DxO Labs Issues DMCA Takedown Requests On 12 GitHub Repositories, Some...
A French image processing company by the name of DxO Labs has filed a DMCA takedown request targeting 12 GitHub repositories containing device-specific code for ROMs, most of them maintained by...
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New Bipartisan Phone Unlocking Bill: DMCA Circumvention Redefined, Permanent...
The legality of certain phone modifications in the United States, particularly those that allow phones to be used on wireless carriers for which they weren't originally intended, is currently on a...
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Qualcomm Backtracks After Issuing DMCA Takedown Notices For 116 GitHub Repos,...
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has a lot of issues, and one of them is the almost instantaneous way in which content can be removed from the web if a copyright holder thinks it's in violation -...
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US Senate Passes Bill To Re-Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking
The devices you buy from US mobile carriers are almost always locked to a single network, and unlocking them has been a legal gray area for the last few years. Now Congress is finally taking action to...
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US House Of Representatives Passes The Same Phone Unlocking Bill As The...
...and he's totally down with it. So, technically using software to unlock digital carrier blocks on your phone in the US is a violation of everyone's favorite draconian copyright legislation, the...
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Google Continues Fight Against Piracy By Emphasizing Legitimate Media Sources...
Say it with me now: piracy is bad. There are ways to get free copies of just about everything online, but even setting aside the legal and moral aspects of it, doing so can come with the risk of...
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United States Library Of Congress: Jailbreaking/Unlocking/Rooting Your Phone...
If you’ve cruised the blogosphere today, you’ve probably noticed a number of articles talking about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the Library of Congress having decided to add a few...
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Looks Like Google Is Starting To Listen - Hundreds Of Pirated Books/Apps...
Up until some recent events, it was quite hard to get through to Google regarding anything going on in the Android Market, be it stolen apps, copyrighted material, or getting any feedback regarding why...
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The War Against Infringement On The Android Market Is Heating Up: Fruit Ninja...
The Android market is filled with apps of questionable legality. But oftentimes, overpriced, branded theme and clock apps like those you'll find here are considered relatively harmless - who's stupid...
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Grooveshark Stands Up For Its Service - Makes Android App Available Online...
Companies like YouTube and Grooveshark are at the center of the ongoing controversies around online distribution of copyrighted materials. This controversy reared its ugly head earlier this month when...
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PSA: The DMCA Exemption Allowing Legal Rooting Of Smartphones Expires This...
This a cause I think we can all get behind. Back in 2010, the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress issued a rulemaking statement exempting smartphones and DVDs from reverse engineering laws...
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New DMCA Exemptions Allow Rooting Phones (But Not Tablets), Unapproved Phone...
Good news, bad news, and really bloody ridiculous news, Android fans. Today, the latest round of DMCA exemptions has been passed and if you've ever jailbroken or rooted a phone, you'll be happy to know...
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Carrier-Unlocking Smartphones Will Be Illegal In The U.S. Tomorrow: Here's...
At this point, you've probably heard that starting tomorrow, it will become illegal to unlock your smartphone to use it on another carrier. You certainly should have heard so since the decision was...
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YouTube Offers To Protect Some Legitimate Fair Use Videos From Frivolous DMCA...
Editor's note: the first three paragraphs of this story are a brief primer on fair use in US copyright law and the complications created by the DMCA. Skip down if you're already familiar with this...
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[Update: Not leaked] DexGuard, a tool to protect Android apps from hacking,...
Update 1: 2018/08/22 9:10am PDT Cached copies of the leak seem to indicate the actual source code was not leaked - just various configuration files, tools, and sample projects designed to help...
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[Update: Listing restored] A DMCA failure: Play Store automated takedowns hit...
Update 1: 2018/10/19 9:05am PDT Google has reinstated the app to the Play Store. We're told by Rosenfeld the listing was returned after contacting Google via a link provided on Twitter, and not the...
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