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<title>New bill seeks cellphone unlocking legalization in DMCA amendment</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/10/unlocking.technology.act.of.2013.to.allow.drm.circumvention/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362000484_capitalhill-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has come under attack by a newly-proposed legislation. The Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 seeks to legalize the unlocking of cellphones, as well as clarifying that the DMCA should only apply in cases where circumventing digital rights management or other copyright systems will aid in copyright infringement itself....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FCC chairman Genachowski to examine cellphone unlock ban</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/01/chairman.unsure.of.what.power.the.fcc.holds.over.the.matter/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362173623_genachowski-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has weighed in on the Internet response to the expiration of the exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which now bans the unauthorized consumer unlock of cell phones. Speaking to TechCrunch, Julian Genachowski said that he believes that the ban "raises competition concerns; it raises innovation concerns" and the agency would ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Petition to legalize smartphone unlocking hits 100,000 names</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/21/white.house.to.respond.to.petition.in.near.future/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/obamaatdeskthumb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A petition demanding the legalization of phone unlocking has reached its threshold for a response from the White House. The 100,000-signature goal on We The People has been met with two days left to run, forcing the Obama administration to address the issue of unlocking being removed from the exceptions to the DMCA....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>HBO.com flagged as HBO copyright violator by MarkMonitor</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/05/markmonitor.key.to.us.isp.six.strikes.system/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1360125821_eastboundanddown-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[MarkMonitor, the company that has been named as the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) vanguard and copyright abuse sniffer, has flagged HBO.com as in violation of the DMCA for violations of its own content in an obvious failure of the system. The report sent to Google stated that HBO.com was using HBO's own cable content without permission. Additionally, the same automated report to the searc...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Unlocking phones without carrier permission illegal in US</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/28/practice.punishable.by.fines.imprisonment.for.unlocking/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1359376142_padlockthumb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Phone unlocking without carrier permission is now illegal in the United States. A 90-day transition period, permitting the practice after an exemption added to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was reversed in October, has now run out, something that now forces customers to either ask and potentially pay carriers for unlocking services, or to buy phones that have been unlocked beforehand....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google blasts studios for "distorting" DMCA in Hotfile suit</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1203/Hotfile-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google has filed an amicus brief in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Motion Picture Association of America studios against file sharing site Hotfile. The search giant has accused the plaintiffs of attempting to "distort" the accepted interpretation of safe harbor provisions detailed in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Court upholds DMCA safe harbors for Veoh, others</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/20/hosting.services.protected.from.liability/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/universal-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A federal appellate court today upheld a lower district court ruling that the safe harbors created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) did protect video hosting site Veoh from copyright liability. The case originated in 2007 when the Universal Music Group sued Veoh for allegedly allowing the site's users to upload protected Universal music videos. Ironically, Veoh filed for Chapter 7 ba...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Universal claims right to block video it doesn't own</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/megasongin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The argument between Universal Music Group and Megaupload over a YouTube-hosted music video from earlier this week has raised some new issues. UMG now claims that it had the right to take down the video from YouTube not under the DMCA but rather thanks to a private contract with YouTube, Ars Technica revealed on Friday. If this holds up, it could bring a dangerous precedent, as the deal would effe...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Universal tries to block TWiT show for mentioning MegaUpload</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/twit-tommerritt.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Universal drew fire Wednesday after it appeared to be misusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to silence news of MegaUpload.  The movie and TV studio had YouTube pull down an episode of TWiT's Tech News Today on Monday for including two clips of MegaUpload's celebrity-laden song endorsing its file transfer service.  Show co-host Tom Merritt had the show back up after a dispute, but Universal...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Viacom tries to reverse court loss to YouTube</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/stephencolbert.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Viacom on Tuesday tried to have a New York City Second Court of Appeals overturn a dismissal of its YouTube lawsuit.  The media giant didn't believe that the basic principles of safe harbor applied to Google's video site and that it should be held liable for any illegally copied video that reaches YouTube, no matter how difficult it was to detect.  Attorney Paul Smith portrayed the upheld ruling a...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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