The librarian of Congress has provided a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let people repair optical drives on video game consoles. The ...

The US Copyright Office has announced an amendment to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, giving console owners the right to repair optical drives. The ruling ...

The US Copyright Office has announced a change to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let console owners repair the optical drives on their own devices ...

There aren’t enough game consoles in the world for our upcoming locked-down holiday. Good luck finding a PS5 for Christmas. As Nintendo similarly struggles to keep up with demand, the number of people ...

Consumers now have the right to repair and replace optical drives from any video games console that utilizes such drives. Thanks to proponents like iFixit and The Repair Association, the Library of ...

Bottom line: This week, the US Copyright Office adopted a new rule acknowledging the Right to Repair (R2R) movement. The regulation creates an exemption in the ...

Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

Don't consoles since at least the last couple gens also have internal hard drives? Replacing those is no bueno? Or does replacing those not require bypassing any DRM so it wouldn't be a problem in the ...

The European Commission has never shied away from flexing its regulatory muscles where it perceives consumer injustice to exist, as both Microsoft and Intel can attest (both have been hit with ...