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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I believe it was only in conjuction with disabilities being overcome that format shifting was deemed legal. There was no flat "you may break DRM to format shift for personal use" edict. Not in the U.S. anyway.
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That's two different issues.
1. Is format shifting an infringement of copyright.
2. Is circumventing DRM for non-copyright-infringing uses a violation of the DMCA.
We have many threads discussing the two contradictory opinions from the 5th and 9th circuit courts a few years ago on issue #2, but I'm not sure that even #1 is writ in stone in all cases.