Thread: EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) makes compelling case for jailbreaking consoles!

Just like the title says the EFF made a compelling case for jailbreaking smartphones, electronic tablets and gaming consoles.

Here is a part from the article:
"The DMCA is supposed to block copyright infringement. But instead it can be misused to threaten creators, innovators, and consumers, discouraging them from making full and fair use of their own property," said EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry. "Hobbyists and tinkerers who want to modify their phones or video game consoles to run software programs of their choice deserve protection under the law. So do artists and critics who use short excerpts of video content to create new works of commentary and criticism. Copyright law shouldn't be stifling such uses – it should be encouraging them."

here is the full article addressed to the us copyright office (ps3 related from page 19):

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[URL]https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/2012_dmca_exemption_requests_no_appendix.pdf[/URL]

EFF managed to make the jailbreaking of smartphones legal and are trying to do the same for gaming consoles, anyway read here more about them:

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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation]Electronic Frontier Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]

If they would manage to make it legal then maybe devs wouldn't be scared or worried about $ony.


I don't know if this is really ps3 news, but it surely is important for the whole ps3 scene, mods do as you see it fit.

Good news. + rep

Still, I doubt they will allow jailbreaking to be protected. Dictatorship is coming fast to electronics.

it's great news indeed

hope it will be real. devs would finally release the keys in peace

i wonder where were they when sony tried to sue(scare more likely) Geohot

It is always nice to hear good news like this!

Hope it will be LEGAL and GEOHOT & GRAF CHOKOLO will back on the PS3SCENE.

Thats pretty good, but expect this rule to conflict with the SOPA bill in one way or another.

Originally Posted by Celesian

Thats pretty good, but expect this rule to conflict with the SOPA bill in one way or another.

technically SOPA would allow anyone to shut down sites the size of facebook for not doing enough to stop you posting links.
though this would only stop people using any sort of copyrighted code. so a jailbreak you need to patch into sony code to use would be fine.

Moved.