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EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos
From the iOwning What's Yours dept.:/ibr /
The Electronic Frontier Foundation drove three deep wedges into the US prohibition on breaking DRM today. EFF had applied to the Copyright Office to grant exemptions permitting the cracking of DRM in three cases: first, to jailbreak a mobile device, such as an iPhone, where DRM is used to prevent phone owners from running software of their own choosing; second, to allow video remix artists to break the DRM on DVDs in order to take short excerpts for mashups posted to YouTube and other sharing sites; finally EFF got the Copyright Office to renew its ruling that made it illegal to unlock cellphones so that they can be used with any carrier.
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Auto manufacturers want to put brakes on Mass. right-to-repair law (Open Source Car Tech)
From the iBuy Once, Get Reamed Everywhere dept.:/ibr /
Mom-and-pop repair shops in Massachusetts are pushing a bill that would require auto manufacturers to provide, at a price, all the diagnostic and software information they make available to their dealerships.br /
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Massachusetts would become the first state to approve the so-called auto right-to-repair law. The Senate recently passed it, and it's pending in the House. Industry observers say passage of the bill in Massachusetts could drive similar legislative efforts in other states.
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Rackspace Opens the Cloud with OpenStack
From the iCloudiness, Chance of Openness dept.:/ibr /
OpenStack is an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. The initial components being offered through this project include the code that powers our Cloud Files (available today) and Cloud Servers (expected available late 2010). Leaders in the technology industry and other stakeholders support the project and are expected to help us drive a deployable, completely open cloud solution.br /
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What does an open cloud mean for you?br /
Prevents vendor lock-inbr /
Increases flexibility in deployment for a highly elastic commodity cloudbr /
Offers a bigger, more robust ecosystem for more tools, better capabilities and a stronger platformbr /
Gives you the freedom to decide how you want your cloudbr /
Drives greater industry standardsbr /
Increases the speed of innovation in cloud technologies
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Microsoft opens source code to Russian secret service
From the iuh huh dept.:/ibr /
Russian publication Vedomosti reported on Wednesday that Microsoft had also given the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) access to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server source code, with hopes of improving Microsoft sales to the Russian state.br /
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The agreement will allow state bodies to study the source code and develop cryptography for the Microsoft products through the Science-Technical Centre 'Atlas', a government body controlled by the Ministry of Communications and Press, according to Vedomosti.br /
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Microsoft Russia president Nikolai Pryanishnikov told Vedomosti that employees of Atlas and the FSB will be able to share conclusions about Microsoft products.
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Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain
From the iHands Off! dept.:/ibr /
Brazil has just created the best-ever implementation of WCT. In Brazil's version of the law, you can break DRM without breaking the law, provided you're not also committing a copyright violation. And what's more, any rightsholder who adds a DRM that restricts things that are allowed by Brazilian copyright laws (fair dealing or fair use) faces a fine.
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