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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Here is the US letter of the law (from the Digital Millenium Copyright Act):
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title...; to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner.
A region code (in the US) qualified as a "technological measure".
I make no comment on othe countries' laws....
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But, we don't know if that's actually legal. There has not been a court case to see if the DMCA trumps Fair Use or nor. Fair Use was out there before DMCA and DMCA makes no mention of trumping Fair Use. So until we get a legal rulling on this, it's a grey area. So you cannot quote the DMCA and say it's illegal. It might not be.
Let's take this example to task... Tor went DRM free.
Redshirts was the first eBook they sold without DRM. Due to technical issues, in some shops, it was sold with DRM. The author put up on his blog to go get the DRM removal tools and use them to strip the DRM. This was done with the full knowledge of the publisher thus making the stripping of the DRM legal because the rights holder(s) allowed it to be done. That also might have then made the DRM removal tools legal as well. Now that just screws with the DMCA big time.