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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Actually, to be quite the stickler for detail here... I don't think the above statement is necessarily true. It's illegal to distribute such a program.
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That's right; it's distribution that's the key. What the DMCA actually says is:
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No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that —
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
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Alf is falling foul of the "offer to the public" clause regardless of whether or not he personally has written the software.