From Engadget here.
Basically in USA you can say goodbye to software locks on cellphones to prevent you from getting a good deal on a phone and being forced to use a single carrier unless you pay a hefty opt-out fee. It’s a win for “fair use” by consumers. Now all we need is it to work in Australia…
WTF? They can just “grant exemptions” when the failings of their flawed legislation become too obvious? Why bother to fix it when you can just buy the voters off. Why do they bother having laws in the first place if some unelected nepocrat makes the final (arbitrary) decision on whether to uphold them?
That’s shocking. Why bother having laws in the first place if some unelected nepocrat gets to make the final (arbitrary) decision on whether to uphold them? If that’s considered necessary, what possible interpration is there apart from that the law is fundamentally flawed? But of course the quality and utility of the law doesn’t really matter when you can buy off the voters on a case-by-case basis like this.
It’s flawed. The list of DMCA exemptions has come out, so I’ll have a look to see what you get or don’t get. Apparently, every 3 years you have to renew the exemptions again (!) so one year it might be legal, the next illegal. Hooray for the DMCA!