Library of Congress exempts some DVD rips from DMCA**

[jinjuku]

(1) Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in the following instances:

(i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students; (ii) Documentary filmmaking; (iii) Noncommercial videos.

I would interpret the highlighted portion to inure to the benefit of consumers that have legally acquired media.

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I have do to a little more digging to see what the last exemption will mean to the law abiding consumer. Now if I am not incorporating them into new works and freeing the media for my personal consumption is the consumer protected for the full length rip?

 

[jinjuku]

Crap, it is pretty narrowly defined when incorporating the circumvented video into new works.

Still nice to see some semblance of balance coming back to the little guy.

 

[sholling]

And you can now legally jail break your phone. You still might brick it and Jobs may still try to slap you silly but his shysters can't sue you for it.

"Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset."​

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

What about those legal movie downloads (not stream) from blockbuster?

Do DIGITAL copies of movies on your hard drives not count vs physical disc copies?