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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Possession is not specifically prohibited. And use may or may not be prohibited, depending on one's interpretation of a law that is, um... clear as mud.* Eminent legal scholars line up on both sides of that question; we'll probably have to wait for the courts to sort it out. Or for Congress to change the law (yeah, right  ).
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I don't see anything in the law that prohibits either possession or personal use. What the law prohibits is:
"manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof.."
That doesn't say anything about merely possessing or using an unDRM program. Any such possession or use has to occur in the context of manufacturing, importing, offering to the public, providing, or trafficking in the unDRM program.
This reminds me very much of the way that Prohibition operated in the US. Strictly speaking, it was never actually illegal to possess alcohol for your own personal use, or drink alcohol. You just couldn't "manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic" in it.