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Originally Posted by jphphotography
That's not actually correct, the act of breaking "digital locks" is illegal regardless of what the intent is. I'm not saying I like DRM or agree with it, just trying to clarify the info given to the OP.
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Not, for example, in the case of explicit anti-circumvention exemptions, where it definitely is legal to break the locks but it is still illegal to write the software to do so. In the case of other fair uses, the law is less clear and has never been tested in federal court against an individual.