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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Can you link to the legislation that makes it legal in the US?
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The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (aka DMCA) clearly makes it
illegal.
Wikipedia has a pretty good summary here, including the Library of Congress' recently announced exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the original law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital..._Copyright_Act
The actual text of the Bill is located here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:H.R.2281:
Please note that the Librarian of the Library of Congress is responsible for the issuance of "exemptions from the prohibition against circumvention of access-control technology. Exemptions are granted when it is shown that access-control technology has had a substantial adverse effect on the ability of people to make non-infringing uses of copyrighted works." per the Wikipedia article.