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Originally Posted by sourcejedi
You're being disingenuous.
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Sourcie, I don't consider anything in my post disingenuous anymore than you would consider your posts long and pedantic.
While the library of congress has only officially issued the carve out you mention, carve outs for personal archival purposes and for obsolete DRM or hardware can easy be read as highly interpreted by other carve outs that the LofC has issued with regards to similar technologies. Accordingly, the allowable use of DRM removal is likely to be substantially broader than you suggest if the issue were tested.
Furthermore, I stated that members might consider such uses of "dubious" legality. In other words, while your reading of the law may be the prevailing view, there are many areas where there are no decisions and were it is open to interpretation.
Finally, regardless of the law, if many members of the forum find DRM an abomination and portent of the coming of the beast, banning such "how to" topics altogether might not be a bad idea.
Have a nice weekend.
