Faultline is campaigning for the re-drafting of key elements of the DCMA. The DMCA legislation owes much of its existence to the fuel-injected lobby power of both the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Pictures Association of America, and both these organisations were in debate at the Congressional Commerce committee called to review a bill that is being called the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act and abbreviated to HR 107 - the number it goes by in Congress.
One of the main changes is to decriminalise the bypassing of copy protection as long as it is to support personal use. At the moment bypassing the copy protection, or owning tools that could bypass it, is illegal on a DVD or music CD, regardless of what you do with the copies you make after bypassing the protection. Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA said that HR 107 would allow the sale of hacking tools that would bust through the Digital Rights Management of iTunes and other services if the hacker is using the copies for "non-infringing purposes.".
For once a moronic law in the states might be overturned rather than created.
Fingers crossed.
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