http://fixthedmca.org

GOG as staunch opponents of DRM should support this campaign aimed at repealing the notorious and commonly abused section 1201 of the DMCA - the anti circumvention provision.

"Heard of jailbreaking?
Same situation*.

Jailbreaking lets you run whatever software you want on your device, including programs not from an "app store."

The Librarian of Congress refused to add exemptions for jailbreaking tablets or game consoles.

* For the moment, jailbreaking phones is exempted, but that may change too."

LOL.

You're right. Thankfully in Poland, it's legal to crack your software however you please, unless you crack it for illegal purpose (for example to pirate software you don't own).

The situation in US is ridiculous and well, GOG could join them, but I don't think websites like that can fight software industry lobbyists.

Gaming industry is still not free from DRM, even on PCs, but especially on consoles. GOG's support (or support of their parent company - CD Projekt Red who are actually developing games) for his campaign would send a significant message.

Actually they can.

During the last round of idiotic new laws targeting so-called 'pirates' by the US government so many online companies joined it (Google, Wikipedia, Hostgator etc) that the law got thrown out before it even started.

I'll sign up and add my websites to it as well.

Thanks for the heads up :)

And YES, GOG should join the protest.

But it's not really against DRM, but against laws prohibiting you to crack/root your software. And it makes sense, I wouldn't expect any laws prohibiting to use DRM ever.

It's tightly related. The whole section 1201 exists because DRM exists. I.e. it's a legal muscle to make breaking DRM prohibited, or to make even sharing the information about how to break the DRM prohibited. Cory Doctorow explains it pretty good in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

So in essence, this campaign is against DRM as well.

Exactly, :)

It's all connected to DRM with the US government having failed in one campaign last year now starting other sneaky ways to make anything remotely connected to avoiding DRM punishable by jail time.

Well, DMCA 1201 isn't exactly new, so it's not like they devised this sneaky way just now. But people are just waking up about pushing back and actually repealing this junk.

Oh you're absolutely correct. It's being going on for years and, for the most part, companies and the US government have gotten away with it because a) consumers didn't understand their rights were being taken away from them and b) the internet wasn't as all-omnipotent as it is now :)

With so many people online and information getting to people so fast it's now very difficult for major corporations and governments to hide what they're doing as, within an hour of being put on the internet, a large percentage of the planet knows what's going on and has begun to respond with outrage.

True, but it still doesn't stop them from trying and trying again. That's why it's important to push back and not to think that this is going to be over so easily.

The more people join against this monstrosity the better. People should be allowed to do whatever they wish with the software that they own if it is for personal use. What I do with what I buy is business

So, are GOG interested in publically denouncing DMCA 1201?

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