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US Copyright Office rules jailbreaking, some DRM circumvention legal
The United States Copyright Office, which reviews the DCMA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) every three years, has made several notable exemptions to the act this year. The exemptions include: bypassing the CSS (Content Scrambling System) in DVDs in certain circumstances; unlocking or jailbreaking cellular phones (including the iPhone), the breaking of DRM in video games under certain circumstances and the breaking of DRM in e-books in order to enable read-aloud or special text functionality.
Unlocking network locked phones in order to enable different cellular carriers and jailbreaking a handset in order to install other operating systems are now both legal. Apple has been very vocal about this ruling since iPhone users will, if they choose, no longer rely solely on the App Store in order to install new software. Apple has pointed out that jailbreaking their handset will invalidate the iPhone’s warranty.
People in the States may bypass a DVD’s CSS system in order to use short clips of a film: for educational purposes by college and university students and professors, for documentaries and for non-commercial videos. Video game DRM may now be bypassed if the purpose is: investigating or testing security vulnerabilities that the DRM may contain or introduce into a system, as long as the information that is discovered is used in accordance with the game’s copyright. The DRM used by e-books may be circumvented if that DRM prevents the book from being read aloud by a computer program or if it prevents specialised screen functionality for the sight impaired.
You can view the ruling here.
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Overclockers caught in cheating scandal, banned for life
 Four of the world’s top overclockers have been banned for life by
XtremeSystems.org and for one year by HWBOT for cheating in the recent
MSI Lords of Overclocking online competition. All were disqualified
from said competition
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Righthaven engaged in copyright trolling?
 Steve Gibson, the CEO of Righthaven, is taking on websites that are
illegally reposting content online by emulating patent trolls.
Righthaven is a new company that is buying up copyrights for newspaper
content posted online and then suing any blogs or sites that reproduce
that information illegally, which is apparently proving profitable for
the fledgling group
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Blizzard has embargoed all Wings of Liberty reviews
 Blizzard has introduced a global embargo on all StarCraft 2: Wings of
Liberty reviews, a move that is being reported by several sources
online, until after the game launches. According to Blizzard this is
mainly due to Battle.Net which the company would like reviewers to
experience in its entirety before publishing reviews
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UltraViolet the new DRM?
 There appears to be a new DRM (Digital Right Management) scheme on the
horizon, going by the name UltraViolet. Apparently backed by many of
the major players in the film and television industry, the official
site says that it is “designed to let consumers enjoy movies and TV shows without being locked into one specific format”
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Developer for female gamers launches
 Yesterday the formation of Silicon Sisters Interactive (SSI) was
announced. A Canada-based gaming company and the brainchild of Brenda
Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes, both of whom have been active
in the gaming industry for some time, Silicon Sisters aims to cater
specifically to female gamers
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Pinnacle makes offer to purchase Axiz
 Pinnacle Technology Holdings Limited (PTH) has made an offer to
purchase 100% of shares in Axis Technology (Pty) Ltd. Pinnacle’s aim is
to merge its solution focused distributor with Axiz which according to
Worgroup MD Doug Woolley will allow Worgroup to expand into new markets
as well as provide Axiz with Workgroups solution expertise
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Asus Crosshair IV Formula review
 The Asus Crosshair IV Formula is the first motherboard to arrive at the
PCF Ranch based on AMD’s new 890FX chipset. The 890FX is the flagship
of AMD’s 8-series chipsets and like its brethren lacks support for the
AM2+ socket/processors as well as DDR2 memory. AMD has given the 890FX
chipset a total of 38 PCI-E lanes which are split between four PCI-E
x16 slots which will have 8 lanes each, a single PCI-E x4 slot and two
PCI-E x1 slots.
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