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Originally Posted by Nakor
Nope, they only decided it's illegal to make yourself able to do the backup except by developing the technology necessary to do so yourself.
It's perfectly legal to perform a backup, but not possible without first participating in something else illegal (buying or otherwise receiving distributed illegal goods) unless you have the know-how to design a way to do so or convert your existing technology to that purpose.
I remember hearing about that case before, always thought it was a bit backwards. I mean, understandable to some extent in the big picture, yet still hypocritical at the same time.
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This dead horse was beat to death in another thread. The bottom line is that you can clearly make a backup copy of a drm (or encrypted) file. Making a backup is independent of the file type.
Oops I see Harmon already said that....