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Circumvention - a matter of geography

Most of the world seems to know by now how New Jersey teenager George Hotz cracked last week the Apple iPhone protection lock which tethers users to the mobile…

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Effective TPMs the Finnish way

A district court in Finland ruled yesterday that the Content Scrambling System (CSS) - the standard technological protection measure for movies distributed on D…

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Sony and DRM

The German American Lawyers Association held last Wednesday in Berlin a panel discussion titled The Current of Ideas in Cyber Society. Patrick Strauch, the Germ…

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Victory in Anti-Circumvention Proceedings

Today, the Copyright Office issued new rules allowing people to circumvent technological protection measures on their cell phones in order to be able to switch…