Comment on Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Android phones for policeparentComments−pas7yDMCA? How, they don't do this to access protected music/movie files. Or is that statute also covers other kinds of data?−boredishBoi7yIt is my understanding that under the DMCA the security measures themselves are copyrighted works and breaking them is a violation of the DMCA in and of itself. That’s why breaking DRM, even if it’s to access public domain works is still illegal.−javagram7yI don’t think that understanding is correct. Content in the public domain is not “protected under this title [copyright law]”https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title
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DMCA? How, they don't do this to access protected music/movie files. Or is that statute also covers other kinds of data?
It is my understanding that under the DMCA the security measures themselves are copyrighted works and breaking them is a violation of the DMCA in and of itself. That’s why breaking DRM, even if it’s to access public domain works is still illegal.
I don’t think that understanding is correct. Content in the public domain is not “protected under this title [copyright law]”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201