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Originally Posted by rjmac
Sorry I need clarification on what this means. If you have the right to legally resell digital content purchased somewhere else, but code such as DRM prevents you from sharing and therefore reselling content, does this ruling potentially impact DRM? e.g. DRM prevents you reselling ebooks unlike a pbook which can be traded on once you have finshed with it.
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The courts have previously ruled that the fact that you have a legal right to do something with digital media doesn't make it permissible to remove DRM in order to be able to do so, except in certain well-defined situations (such as for disabled people). Eg, in the "RealDVD" case the court ruled that simply because there was a legal right to be able to create a backup copy of a DVD, that didn't mean that it was legal to remove DRM to permit you to do so.
I would imagine that this would also apply to resale, although the overwhelming majority (if not all) digital media doesn't permit resale anyway.