Feds grant DMCA exceptions
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The U.S. Library of Congress created on Tuesday four narrow exemptions to a controversial digital-piracy statute but was criticized by free-speech activists, who had hoped for more exceptions.
As part of a regular process of reviewing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, regulators created four new instances in which it is legal to crack digital copyright protections. Such protections can now be broken to access
• Lists of sites blocked by commercial Internet filtering software, but not spam-fighting lists
• Computer programs protected by hardware dongles that are broken or obsolete
• Computer programs or video games that use obsolete formats or hardware
• E-books that prevent read-aloud or other handicapped access formats from functioning