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Originally Posted by AlexBell
This is one of the urban myths which get mindlessly repeated over and over.
It is not illegal to strip DRM for personal use - I challenge anyone to show me case history
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Unless someone appointed you Ultimate Judge of All Law, your statement is false, unreasonable and potentially dangerous.
First of all, some countries in Europe make it clearly illegal, and I believe you will find some documentation.
Second, in the US, the DMCA has words in it that say circumventing DRM is illegal, and the Library of Congress has a rule making process to make exemptions to that which clearly shows that exceptions need to be made for individual activities.
It's not a myth, and you cannot say it is NOT illegal in the face of that.
HOWEVER, I think we will see that it is not illegal in the US. If we ever do get a case about such personal use (unlikely, because even if it is illegal, who's going to know or care enough to sue if there was no copyright infringment?), I think we will see stripping DRM for person, non-infringing uses is held as fair use, and I hope we will have rule making or revised legislation that makes this explicitly clear. Also, I think, if it NOT proven to been seen this way, such prohibition is unjust and morally wrong.
But that's just me. The letter of the law is undeniable.
ApK