On October 27th, the United States Librarian of Congress redefined what can be considered fair use in video games. They clarified that players were allowed to circumvent server based authentication (DRM) when the original servers are no longer online, like say you wanted to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (#1). There are also exemptions for archivists to be able to modify/jailbreak consoles to preserve the functionality of games.
This is good news, because currently the biggest fear most people have about online-DRM like Steam, Origin and Uplay is that, when the servers eventually go down, the games won't function anymore, but because of this ruling, the law will now be on your side to restore functionality of the game.
Sources:
http://www.destructoid.com/fair-use-for-video-games-expanded-in-the-us-317812.phtml
https://www.eff.org/document/library-congress-2015-dmca-1201-rules
This is good news, because currently the biggest fear most people have about online-DRM like Steam, Origin and Uplay is that, when the servers eventually go down, the games won't function anymore, but because of this ruling, the law will now be on your side to restore functionality of the game.
Sources:
http://www.destructoid.com/fair-use-for-video-games-expanded-in-the-us-317812.phtml
https://www.eff.org/document/library-congress-2015-dmca-1201-rules