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The U.S. Library of Congress created on Tuesday four narrow exemptions 
to a controversial digital-piracy statute but was criticized by 
free-speech activists, who had hoped for more exceptions. 

As part of a regular process of reviewing the Digital Millennium 
Copyright Act, regulators created four new instances in which it is 
legal to crack digital copyright protections. Such protections can now 
be broken to access 

�� Lists of sites blocked by commercial Internet filtering software, but 
not spam-fighting lists 
�� Computer programs protected by hardware dongles that are broken or 
obsolete 

<IMPORTANT ONE!!!>

�� Computer programs or video games that use obsolete formats or 
hardware 

<Should include anything Apple II related...>

�� E-books that prevent read-aloud or other handicapped access formats 
from functioning 


Greg B.

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