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Stephen Downes

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Four new exemptions are added to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): lists of Internet locations blocked by filtering software, programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete, formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware, and access controls that prevent the enabling of the ebook's read-aloud function. Critics responded immediately (and correctly) that the vast majority of consumers are still unable to access their own property.

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