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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Please note: I didn't write anything about the legality (or lack thereof) of actually cracking the DRM (for personal use only, on legally acquired content). Legal opinions differ on the subject. I've heard eminent legal scholars tell a graduate seminar that it's squeaky-clean legal. And heard other eminent legal scholars tell the same seminar that it's obviously illegal. In the end, we won't know until there's a court case.
What I wrote about was the legality of telling others about DRM-removal tools, how to use such tools, and where to get such tools. Sadly, that part is not in dispute -- everyone agrees that the DMCA makes the second and third of those illegal (and may or may not make the first illegal). And that is the liability we don't want to expose our hosts to.
Xenophon
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Based on this statement and by the strictest definition of tools, all computer programing & classes on such are tools for removing DRM. Yes they are also tools for all software. DRM removal would not be possible without the programming tools, and in fact would not be possible without language so therefore language itself is illegal since it is a DRM removal tool. (I admit the is argument ad absurdum but it is no less true.)