{"id":8314,"date":"2010-07-28T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/eff-wins-enormous-victory-against-drm\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:28:00","slug":"eff-wins-enormous-victory-against-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/eff-wins-enormous-victory-against-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF wins enormous victory against DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/07\/26\/eff-wins-enormous-vi.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29'>EFF wins enormous victory against DRM<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Boing Boing posts some great news:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation drove three deep wedges into the US prohibition on breaking DRM [<a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_rights_management\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Rights Management<\/a>] today. EFF had applied to the Copyright Office to grant exemptions permitting the cracking of DRM in three cases: first, to &ldquo;jailbreak&rdquo; a mobile device, such as an iPhone, where DRM is used to prevent phone owners from running software of their own choosing; second, to allow video remix artists to break the DRM on DVDs in order to take short excerpts for mashups posted to YouTube and other sharing sites; finally EFF got the Copyright Office to renew its ruling that made it legal to unlock cellphones so that they can be used with any carrier.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s about time that Fair Use was applied with some common sense.\u00a0 This ruling does not make &ldquo;piracy&rdquo; legal but rather frees consumers to use media and devices that they have purchased without the draconian restrictions that have been imposed by the RIAA, MPAA, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF wins enormous victory against DRM Boing Boing posts some great news: The Electronic Frontier Foundation drove three deep wedges into the US prohibition on breaking DRM [Digital Rights Management] today. EFF had applied to the Copyright Office to grant exemptions permitting the cracking of DRM in three cases: first, to &ldquo;jailbreak&rdquo; a mobile device, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/eff-wins-enormous-victory-against-drm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EFF wins enormous victory against DRM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}