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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
At the risk of being banned - HarryT, you are completely and totally wrong in the above statement.
IN THIS THREAD, POST #56:
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" 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.... "
In the US, it would be a violation of the DCMA. Now I agree that no cases have been brought to trial, and it might fail under US Constitution First Amendment rights, but until a case is brought to trial and appealed to make that determination, one way or the other, the law stands...
An unenforced law is still a law.
Or are you saying that you can purchase an out-of-region disc, legally, so you can look at the disc on a shelf. because if you played it, that would be illegal under US law.
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I've said this for eBooks and I'll now say it for DVD. This is a gray area and will be until there is a legal ruling in a court of law. FAIR USE was in place before DMCA. There is nothing at all legally that says that DMCA trumps Fair Use. So unless it's ruled in a court of law, it may very well not be illegal to do what HarryT is doing. IT's not black & white. Please don't go quoting the DMCA saying that's how it is, because that's not how it is.
Do you know 100% that Fair Use is trumped by DMCA? I don't and I dont know anyone else who does know. So get this in front of a court of law and then we'll know. But for now, it's not valid to quote the DMCA and say that's being done is illegal.