Yesterday US copyright regulators opened up the floodgates for a public hearing (PDF) of proposals to change copyright law, including authorizing the cracking of tablets, DVDs, gaming consoles and mobile phones.
Every three years, the US Copyright Office mulls over requests to create temporary loopholes in the law that forbids circumventing encryption in the things we buy.
Changes to those loopholes have the potential to mean a lot to George Hotz.
Hotz is a hardware hacker known online as Geohot who owns a box full of Sony products. Per court order, they've been tucked away where he can't tinker with them.
As Wired's David Kravets writes, Sony last year dropped a PlayStation 3 jailbreaking lawsuit against Hotz in return for his promise to never again hack his game console or any other Sony product.
He told Wired that he hasn't touched the components since the settlement.
Before the settlement of the civil suit, he was busy figuring out how to play homemade games on the Sony console, in violation of a law that forbids cracking encryption in hardware or software, even for legal purposes.
This will be the fifth time the office has heard requests to modify the law?the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF)?since it was passed in 1998.
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By: Lisa Vaas - Sophos
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