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The US Copyright Office has just released its list of copyright exemptions, and DVD and Blu-ray ripping remains illegal.

The US Copyright Office, a department of the Library of Congress, regularly calls for public consultation on exemptions to existing copyright laws. These exemptions are needed to prevent copyright laws from impinging on consumer rights, or to prevent teaching and research activities.

Public interest group Public Knowledge petitioned the US Copyright Group to exempt DVD and Blu-ray ripping from copyright laws, if the user is doing so for personal and non-profit reasons, such as to enable cross-device compatibility. The exemption, they say is needed to allow consumers to exercise their fair use rights, to allow consumers to move their legally owned media between their personal devices.

The US Copyright Office did grant limited exemption for DVD/Blu-ray ripping, in the context of ripping short portions for "use in documentary filmmaking" and for "nonfiction multimedia e-books offering film analysis." Teachers and students may also engage in disc ripping "for educational purposes" and for "film studies or other courses requiring close analysis of film and media excerpts."

In one big concession, an exemption was granted for game DRM ripping for "local play" games. This means that for games which require online authentication even for local solo play, the DRM in these games can now be legally cracked in order to allow for continued play. As for creating replacement servers to allow the continued use of online games, this remains illegal.

Other notable exemptions include jailbreaking of mobile phones, tablets, wearables with cellular connections, and even smart TVs. Jailbreaking of game consoles remain illegal because the US Copyright Office says the activity is still too closely linked to piracy at the moment.

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One of the largest piracy release groups, and the torrent download website they operated, has been permanently shut down.

The website, YTS, went down last week under mysterious circumstances, and so far, no explanation has been given for the shut down, or the decision by the release group YIFY to stop uploading pirated movies to YTS and other torrent sites.

But torrent news site TorrentFreak has confirmed, via numerous sources, that the YTS/YIFY shutdown is permanent, and that the reasons for the shutdown will be made public in the coming weeks.

YIFY has been one of the most prolific release groups on the Internet since the group's debut in 2010. Since then, the group has released over 6,000 titles, and their torrents are often the most frequently downloaded.

The end of the group's piracy activities will have a major effect on the piracy scene in the short term, with many fake YIFY torrents already appearing on various torrent sites. But in the long term, YIFY's demise will not be a killer blow to piracy, as other groups will simply take over and continue on from where YIFY left off.