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Originally Posted by pdurrant
And so the fact the the Librarian of Congress has given permission for personal use of DRM removal software for ebooks in a certain case demonstrates that there is a general prohibition on doing so.
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And in fact, if I'm reading the of the current LoC rule-making
hearing transcripts correctly (and I may not be, since Harmon is certainly right about one thing: lawyers sure can obfuscate....) they have more than once said that a exemption rule is not needed to allow something that's not already prohibited. i.e., they are not going to make an exemption rule merely to affirm or clarify, which means if they agree with Harmon, and
they read the law as to NOT prohibiting personal stripping for non infringing uses, then they are unlikely to make a rule that states it IS permitted, which would be a little disappointing, because a judge could still disagree if it ever came up, and a rule would effectively settle the matter. We'll see.
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