Post by cjm on Oct 30, 2015 6:53:54 GMT
EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software
[Posted October 27, 2015 by ris]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that the Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the right to inspect and modify the software in their cars and other vehicles. "EFF also won an [DMCA] exemption for users who want to play video games after the publisher cuts off support. For example, some players may need to modify an old video game so it doesn’t perform a check with an authentication server that has since been shut down. The Librarian also granted EFF’s petition to renew a previous exemption to jailbreak smartphones, and extended that to other mobile devices, including tablets and smartwatches. This clarifies the law around jailbreaking, making clear that users are allowed to run operating systems and applications from any source, not just those approved by the manufacturer. EFF also won the renewal and partial expansion of the exemptions for remix videos that use excerpts from DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, or downloading services."