Remains of the Day: Major Web Platforms Suffer Outages

Several major web platforms suffer from outages, The US Copyright Office considers ripping illegal, jailbreaking smartphones is not, YouTube tests out new UIs, and remote troubleshooting app Soluto adds support for a major Windows 8 complaint.

• Dropbox, Tumblr, and Other Web Platforms Suffer From Service Interruptions Friday was a bad day for the cloud, as Dropbox, Google's Apps Engine, and YouTube suffered from service interruptions. No word on what's caused the problem, although Tumblr stated having " an issue with one of our uplink providers". Most sites should be back up now, though things have been intermittent for most of the day [The Next Web]
• US Copyright Office Considers Ripping Illegal Ripping CDs and DVDs is illegal, according to both the US Register of Copyrights and the Librarian of Congress. Today's 1201 exemption announcement—a tri-annual "permission slip" of sorts that allows circumvention of DRM tech that gets in the way of otherwise legal activities- denied an exemption that "would allow people to rip DVDs they already own in order to transfer the movie to a device that cannot play DVDs (like a tablet)." [Public Knowledge Blog]
• Jailbreaking Now Legal Under DMCA for Smartphones, But Not Tablets
  The same round of exemptions now make it permissible to jailbreak smartphones —but not tablets. More exemption details include provisions for disability access to e-books, and a reversal that prohibits cell phone unlocking . [Ars Technica]
• A New YouTube UI Experiment YouTube is testing out some new user interfaces, and you can check them out by simply changing a YouTube cookie. [Google Operating System]

• Get Windows 8 Classic Desktop Back With Soluto Soluto, the already awesome trouble shooting app has added support for helping your friends get their start menu back in Windows 8, just in time for the OS launch. [Soluto Blog]
• New Megaupload to Launch on Police Raid Anniversary Mega, the pending relaunch of file sharing site Megaupload, will go live on January 19—exactly one year from the date it was shut down by the US Government. [TorrentFreak]
• Microsoft's Times Square Store Opens, Draws Massive Crowds In addition to launching Windows 8 and Surface, Microsofts new Times Square retail store opened this week, with a huge Surface event an pop-up locations in other markets. [Neowin]