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Originally Posted by =X=
I said DRM was illegal for software. I did not say the user had the right to pirate software or to violate the license agreement.
"DRM" on software is not legal because of the fair use act. We as consumers have the right to backup our software.
However the law was written lose enough so that software makes could add some sort of protection on their software such as password key, license keys, license servers, etc....
If you note on your example you have the ability to backup your software you just don't have the option to violate the license agreement.
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Ummm.. what exactly do you think DRM is? About 4 years ago, the hard drive on my computer went up; Rather than buy a new computer, I bought and installed a new Hard Drive. I then installed Windows XP from the installation Disk that came with my computer. Even though I had the original license serial number, and was installing it on the same computer as it was before, I had to spend 30 minutes on the phone with Microsoft before I could get Windows fully operational because of the built in DRM. Thats DRM.
As others have pointed out, there is no Fair Use Act, and the DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent DRM (and since it is illegal to circumvent it, it is hard to argue that DRM itself is illegal).
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Bill