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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Do you know of anyone who has ever been charged or sued for removing DRM for his or her own personal use?
Removing DRM from a file that one has bought and spent money on for ones own personal use cannot be shown to have done any harm to the vendor. So if one was charged or sued the case would be laughed out of court.
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Please remember, the DMCA is a CRIMINAL statute, not a Civil one. They don't have to show damages in a Criminal case, merely that you broke the law. The law also calls for penalties of restitution, so yes, that might be low or zero, but that doesn't change the fact that the DMCA is criminal law, not civil.