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Originally Posted by Xenophon
I have written advice-of-counsel (from an eminent IP lawyer, no less!) to the effect that, in her opinion, removal of DRM from legally acquired content for personal use only falls entirely within existing fair-use rights.
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Here in Canada, the current government tabled a bill about a year ago that would have clarified this situation. The bill would have made it legal to make back-ups for fair use purposes, and this was trumpeted by the government in the media. However, the same bill would have also made the breaking of _any_ DRM illegal, including the fair use cases. That part of the bill wasn't trumpeted to the media
. There was some grassroots opposition to the bill, and it was removed from the table, for now.
The previous government pushed for a similar bill, so the lobbying seems to be party agnostic. It also seems to be country agnostic; international big-money is pushing this everywhere it can, using small gains in one country as leverage in others.