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Originally Posted by jl_carter
that DRM circumvention is prohibited even if there is NO copyright violation.
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In footnote 12 the Ninth Circuit "leave[s] open the question whether fair use might serve as an affirmative defense to a prima facie violation of § 1201"
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For those of you who believed the distinction was owned vs. borrowed, I want to point out that if the former statement proves true and holds up, that suggests that even stripping your OWNED ebooks for backup would be illegal.
Write your legislators, folks. Quick. Ask for the same kind of protections other countries are putting into their DMCA-like laws.
ApK