[mythtv-users] Now legal to decrypt DVDs?

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Jul 26 20:18:05 UTC 2010


At 15:18 -0400 26/7/10, Greg wrote:
>I found this article today. It's a bit vague...
>
>http://www.betanews.com/article/DMCA-revised-unlocking-jailbreaking-phones-ebook-texttospeech-deemed-fair-use/1280166064

Go read the statement linked to from the article - it's not vague at 
all. On DVDs it says :

>(1)  Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and 
>that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when 
>circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the 
>incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works 
>for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person 
>engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for 
>believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of 
>the use in the following instances:
>(i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by 
>college and university film and media studies students;
>(ii) Documentary filmmaking;
>(iii) Noncommercial videos

So it's only short excerpts, and only for educational or criticism.

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