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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Piracy and DRM removal a pretty different IMO. Piracy is taking something you have no legal right to against the legal owners wishes and/or willfully enabling and encouraging others to do the same.
DRM removal is altering something you may have legally bought so you can use it. Kind of like shortening the aforementioned pants. A little murky because of the EULA but far from piracy.
You stated in your first post that you were induced to piracy and made no mention of DRM removal. I assumed you actually meant piracy as this is not a DRM related thread.
DRM removal may be in many cases be used to faciltate piracy, but definitely not piracy itself.
Helen
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Not as different as you might think Helen because actually, under the anti-circumvention section of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "
DMCA"), DRM removal is illegal, not just "murky".
From the DMCA:
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1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems2(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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And from the Electronic Freedom Foundation:
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In a nutshell, the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions forbid the making, distribution and use of technologies that allow people to "circumvent," i.e., break, digital rights management (DRM) and "other technical protection measures" used to lock down copyrighted works. While this ban was meant to deter copyright infringement, many have misused the law to chill competition, free speech, and fair use.
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How dare you make reasonable changes to software you bought to make it more useful to you! You filthy pirates disgust me.