One small step for the digital rights movement?

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

In addition to the jailbreaking exemption, the FCC announced a few oth er rules that have less sweeping applicability but are still significant:

• Professors, students and documentary filmmakers are now allowed, for “noncommercial” purposes, to break the copy protection measures on DVDs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc3236

 

[streetfighter 2]

I'm confused. Where is the FCC literature on this? Was this done in a circuit court? Why am I wearing pants?

--Err, I got it. But I don't see what the FCC has to do with this.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-1201-Statement.html

Also, it's the EFF we have to thank (as we should thank them every day anyway).
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/eff-nothing-new-about-iphones-closed-platform (this is from deeplink's blog which is one of only two I read regularly)

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

swore this thread would get more attention