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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
If you break DRM for "private gain or commercial advantage," you've committed a crime. If you do it otherwise, it's a civil offense with statutory damages of $200 to $2,500. (Or someone can sue for actual damages, assuming they could prove them.)
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Here's something I noticed last time I read
§1203.
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Any person injured by a violation of section 1201 or 1202 may bring a civil action in an appropriate United States district court for such violation.
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(My bold) Now it seems to me that to bring a civil there must be some evidence of injury. I can't see that removal of DRM for private use causes any kind of injury, and so a civil action can't be brought.
But perhaps this is some special legal use of the word.