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Even though the government has revised the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) to make it legal for users to jailbreak their iPhones, a judge says that the fair use policy does not apply when applied to jailbreaking for Microsoft's Xbox home gaming console. According to Wired, the 28-year-old defendant "faces three years in prison on two allegations of violating the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for financial gain." Lawyers for the defense argued that the hardware modification, a form of jailbreaking, isn't intended to run pirated games on the Xbox, but to allow "fair use" of copyrighted materials or for home-brewed solutions.
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