Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
by yuliyp on Monday March 04, 2013 @03:46PM
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This has nothing to do with the takedown and indemnification sections. It has to do with the sections which make talking about, writing, distributing, and running certain types of code illegal.
Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
by eek04 on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:57PM
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We're talking about 17 USC § 1201 - Circumvention of copyright protection systems (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201), the anti-circumvention part of the DMCA, most importantly 1201(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures (with the associated 1201(b) Additional Violations).
What you're talking about is USC 512 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512), 17 USC § 512 - Limitations on liability relating to material online
These are more or less completely unrelated apart from being introduced in the same legislative act (which also did a fair number of other changes to the law.)
There might be many BS copyright laws and extensions, but the DMCA ain't one of them.