{"id":2507,"date":"2012-01-27T03:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T09:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2012-09-15T00:22:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T05:22:06","slug":"jailbreaking-exemption-to-dmca-is-about-to-expire-eff-would-rather-it-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"Jailbreaking exemption to DMCA is about to expire, EFF would rather it didn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/01\/26\/jailbreaking-exemption-to-dmca-is-about-to-expire-eff-would-rat\/\">Jailbreaking exemption to DMCA is about to expire, EFF would rather it didn&#8217;t &#8212; Engadget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back in 2010, the US Copyright Office added a set of anti-circumvention exemptions to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/DMCA\/\">DMCA<\/a>, effectively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/07\/26\/library-of-congress-adds-dmca-exception-for-jailbreaking-or-root\/\">making it legal<\/a> for smartphone users to jailbreak and\/or root their devices. These exemptions, however, were never made permanent and now, they&#8217;re about to expire. The EFF doesn&#8217;t want this to happen, which is why it&#8217;s decided to launch a campaign dedicated to the jailbreaking cause. With this initiative, the EFF is hoping to convince the Copyright Office to renew its exemptions and expand them to a wider range of devices, including tablets and video game consoles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailbreaking exemption to DMCA is about to expire, EFF would rather it didn&#8217;t &#8212; Engadget. Back in 2010, the US Copyright Office added a set of anti-circumvention exemptions to the DMCA, effectively making it legal for smartphone users to jailbreak &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[430,431,429],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-dmca","tag-eff","tag-jailbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6470,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/6470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}