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Originally Posted by JSWolf
We've had enough of removing DRM is illegal. It's not illegal. No judge has ever ruled that it is illegal and the DMCA is just a jumble of contradictions.
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In the U.S., breaking digital locks on DRM is clearly against the DMCA. Here's subsection 1201(a) of the Act:
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(a) VIOLATIONS REGARDING CIRCUMVENTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES. (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title...
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Subsection 1201(2) of the Act further states:
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(2) As used in this subsection—
(A) to ‘circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure’ means avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or otherwise impairing a technological measure; and
(B) a technological measure ‘effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title’ if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title.
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And there have been civil cases where these sections were used and ruled on (a case against a company making dvd copying software comes to mind).
Here's the TL;DR version:
