By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026The Copyright Office does not have the power to create a *tools exemption* that would allow someone to make that unlocking tool and sell or give it to you. Making that tool remains a felony with a five-year prison sentence attached to it. 47/ 1152 15
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026Say you want to use your own property in a way that was legal *before* DMCA 1201, that has been made legal *again* because you hired a lawyer who successfully petitioned the US Copyright Office to grant an exemption. 48/ 1120 12
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026Even then, you can only do so if *you, personally reverse engineer your device effect the permitted modifications to it*. Say the US Copyright Office legalizes alternative iPhone app stores 49/ 1131 13
