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Old 10-30-2008, 12:17 PM   #150
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Originally Posted by Xenophon View Post
The tools themselves are legal, although creating them is not. Using the tools is legal, although supplying them or spreading information about them is not. The DMCA is a really really odd piece of legislation.
We had this discussion before and I still think this interpretation is wrong. But even assuming you are right... if you can't create a tool to remove DRM... and you can't share a tool to remove DRM then if you get a tool to remove it then you are "sharing" the tool which violates the DMCA. So, the effective result is the same. Removing DRM violates the DMCA. Unless you have to cort cases to cite a precedent where this was ruled on, that is what I believe.

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