Youtube's new CTM complaint system allows companies to take down videos on modding games and jailbreaking devices

[mr moose]

20 hours ago, Thaldor said:

Your short coming is that you only read the law. Both EU with their copyright directive and US with their DMCA have made it illegal to circumvent any DRM, but in 2014 EUs court of justice made the decision that circumventing DRM in some cases is legal (to increase peoples interest, that EU court ruling is actually done against Nintendo):

In US the same thing has happened where court rulings have been positive for circumventing DRM in computer programs (citing wikipedia):

So yeah, it's illegal but as with any law the true ruling is done in courts which decide how that law is interpret. Yes, in both EU and US it's still case by case, with EU having far more directed course of rulings, because EUs court of justice overrules every member countrys own courts of justice because the lower courts cannot make rulings that are against higher court rulings and the EUs court of justice is the highest court order in any EU country (so if you live in EU and Nintendo sues you for rooting/jailbraking Switch to run Android and you haven't done it to break copyrights, just use that EU court ruling and the case should be over). EU also has that thing that the EU directives are just as they literally sound like, directions, like in Finnish copyright law, which goes mostly with the directions of the EU copyright directive, there is a part that makes it illegal to circumvent DRMs, except there's also a part that excludes "computer programs" from that, so it's illegal (no one has been ever sued over it, so there's no court rulings) to circumvent DRM in music CDs and whatever, but it's totally legal to circumvent DRM in "computer programs" (which can be anything between firmwares, OSs and games/applications, Finnish law doesn't really have clear lines what is a "computer program") [side note: Finland is usually the country that takes any EU directives as literally as possible and goes for the most strict path (that is where the joke in Iron Sky -movie, where the US president asks "who didn't arm their spaceship?" and only Finland rises his hand, comes from)].

 

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Also as a side note, EUs court of justice has also ruled that DRMs should not prevent reselling computer programs, even downloaded ones (the press release of the ruling from 2012).

So, don't say EU never did something good, okay.

 

Short comings ay?