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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Actually, under the anti-circumvention section of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DRM removal is illegal, not just murky.
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The poster who was talking about removing DRM, though, is in the Netherlands, so the DMCA is irrelevant. I don't know about Dutch law in particular, but I don't know of any EU country in which DRM removal for personal use is illegal.
In the US, a number of legal authorities have expressed the view that DRM removal is not illegal, because the Fair Use clause of copyright law "trumps" the DMCA but, until a case goes to court, both the "it's illegal" and "it's not illegal" camps are merely expressing an opinion.