Jailbreaking DRM-enabled eBooks Now Legal In Some Cases
The US Copyright Office issued new rules today that will give consumers more freedom to crack DRM-enabled digital content in order to consume the works in noninfringing ways. In other words, it is now legal to jailbreak content, so long as the consumer is not infringing on the copyright of the material, and they are following the new rules.
The Copyright Office selected six different categories of content and spelled out appropriate digital cracking. For eBooks, DRM can only be cracked when the audio tracks have been disabled.
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