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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
No, it is not "copyright infringement" ... it is a violation of the DMCA, IF you happen to live in the United States.
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Originally Posted by larisa0001
Which is defined as copyright infringement, and carries the same penalties. And yes, this only applies to the United States.
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The DMCA is a "copyright protection" act, but violating it is not the same as infringing on copyrights. Otherwise, the penalties would be much lighter--copying for personal use with no financial gain is not illegal in the US; you're free to make a copy of something you own for your own use. If the DMCA were treated the same, it'd be entirely legal and non-controversial to have a program that removes DRM from your own property for private use, just like it's legal to copy a TV show onto a VCR tape to watch it later.
Cracking DRM doesn't violate anyone's copyrights; it's tied to a different law, that's supposed to support copyrights, but has entirely different penalties from copyright infringement.