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Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets (ars technica)Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets (ars technica)Posted Oct 29, 2012 23:19 UTC (Mon) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083)In reply to: Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets (ars technica) by zlynx Parent article: Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets (ars technica)
The German high court recently ruled that a computer with an internet connection is a radio/TV set, and thus subject to the media tax, which supports state run radio/TV shows. Of course, the youth of Germany don't listen to/watch those shows, and don't want to pay for them. Once someone realizes that a smart phone/tablet is a computer with an internet connection, then what?
The courts, in all societies, need a procedure for deciding when precedent no longer applies.
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Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets (ars technica) Posted Oct 30, 2012 3:48 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
That's actually a good ruling because a computer can be (and often is) used for viewing TV. The fact that youth don't listen the state TV is irrelevant in this case.
However, limiting the tax to only ONE device per one human should be in order.
Jailbreaking now legal under DMCA for smartphones, but not tablets (ars technica) Posted Oct 30, 2012 9:49 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] Actually, the German statutory TV/radio media fee is supposedly payable only for live feeds, which state TV in Germany does not in fact provide. Hence, internet-enabled PCs basically count as radios, as state radio does offer live feeds. The fee for TV sets is higher than that for radios. The whole issue is becoming moot since the per-device fee will soon be replaced by a per-household levy that everyone will have to pay regardless of whether they actually own, or use, a TV/radio/internet-enabled computer.
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