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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
No. Fair use is not a "right." Fair use is an exception to the *copyright* statute. Fair use means that certain acts do not legally constitute *copyright* infringement. Fair use only applies to copyright law. Fair use doesn't allow you to shoplift a book (because it's not an exception to the theft statute), nor does it allow you to snip a passage out a book in a store (because it's not an exception to the vandalism statute). Fair use doesn't allow you to violate the DMCA because that's a completely *different* law to which fair use has no application.
Yes. And like fair use, the DMCA exceptions are only exceptions to the DMCA; you can't infringe copyright to get a book that allows reading aloud just because it is permitted by the dmca in the same manner that you can't invoke fair use to violate the DMCA.
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How does the simple act of stripping DRM rise to the level of copyright infringement?