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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why do you believe that it's not covered? I can certainly see nothing in the DMCA that says that it doesn't apply to items that you've bought.
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That's my point. The DMCA does NOT say that it doesn't apply to items that you've bought. It doesn't have to.
If you go out and buy a car, and sign a contract for the purchase of a Volkswagen, the contract is not going to say that you haven't bought a Ford.
Likewise, the DMCA does not SAY that it doesn't cover stripping DRM from your own files, because it doesn't cover that in the first place. The law is written in a fashion that avoids making personal DRM stripping a violation. So there doesn't have to be a specific exception for that.