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Karen and Bradley discuss two other DMCA exemptions filed by Software
Freedom Conservancy during the 2020/2021 Triennial Rulemaking Process at
the copyright office: one for wireless router firmwares and one for
privacy research.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:39)

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Segment 1 (06:30)

• Conservancy filed a href="https://downloads.regulations.gov/COLC-2020-0010-0052/attachment_1.pdf">DMCA
  exemption request for wireless routers, and updated it with their href="https://sfconservancy.org/docs/2020-12-14_Comment-Class-11_networking-devices.pdf">long
  comment on the issue.
• NPR's
  Planet Money had a show that discussed how recycling plastic in
  the USA was somewhat of a large con game funded by the plastics industry.
  Both href="https://edge2.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/npr/pmoney/2020/09/20200911_pmoney_pmpod1032-c4b9b9d0-211d-441a-9a9c-aee52d120ed6.mp3/20200911_pmoney_pmpod1032-c4b9b9d0-211d-441a-9a9c-aee52d120ed6.mp3_db946c41c4552c5dee3bd12de66f9f99_23280291.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1150&d=1442&p=510289&story=912150085&t=podcast&e=912150085&dl=1&siteplayer=true&size=23147544&awCollectionId=510289&awEpisodeId=912150085&dl=1&hash_redirect=1&x-total-bytes=23280291&x-ais-classified=download&listeningSessionID=0CD_382_67__846d651a76c0c27749bca0d84330b0d674430165">audio
  a transcript is
  available. (19:32, 20:44)

Segment 2 (29:10)

• Bradley and Karen discuss the third exemption request that Conservancy
  filed, href="https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2021/petitions/proposed/New%20Pet.%20-%20Software%20Freedom%20Conservancy%20-%202.pdf">for
  research to find privacy flaws, and updated it with a href="https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2021/comments/Class%2013_Initial%20Comment_Software%20Freedom%20Conservancy.pdf">long
  comment on the issue.
• Karen and Bradley noted that href="https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/COLC-2020-0010-0075">individuals
  can file reply comments before the deadline of Wednesday 10 March 2021 at
  23:59 US/Eastern. Note that the “neutral comment”
  requirement appears to no longer be listed; the 2021-03-10 (47:20)

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