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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
For whatever reason, apparently the publishers didn't see fit to press a DMCA claim. It's a little puzzling, really. All these years, the DMCA's anti-circumvention has been the bogeyman we tell stories about around our blog and forum campfires. It's illegal to crack DRM for any purpose, even if you want to make fair use. It's illegal even to tell people how to crack DRM.
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But it was never so cut and dry. It was always a grey area. DMCA was never said to trump fair use which existed long before DMCA. So you cannot just say you cannot remove DRM because of DMCA because it can also be said that yes you can, fair use was there first. So when someone says in no uncertain terms that DRM stripping is illegal because of DMCA, laugh in that person's face and shout FAIR USE!