A new change to the much-maligned Digital Millennium Copyright Act free users who jailbreak their iPhones and other mobile handsets from worries about prosecution under the provisions of the DMCA that prevented circumvention of protection technologies. A separate change announced Monday also gives security researchers some new protections. The changes to the DMCA particularly the ruling that handset jailbreaking does not infringe on copyrights are being hailed by legal experts and privacy advocates as major advances. The Library of Congress s Patent Office, which oversees the DMCA, conducts mandatory regular reviews of the law.
Source: https://threatpost.com/changes-dmca-protect-jailbreaking-some-security-research-072610/74259/