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Old 04-09-2010, 03:11 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act only protects copyrighted material. Removing the "DRM" from non-copyrighted material can't (erm, should not?) be illegal, because there are no digital rights to protect.
I agree with your sentiment, but the letter of law, as I understand it, is somewhat different. You see, the said act went a bit further, and defined a new type of criminal activity. From what I know, the design and distribution of any tool that can be used to circumvent copyright protection became a crime.

So, if company A, has one copyrighted title protected by a given protection scheme, that makes the complete scheme legal fortress. Since the act did not prevent company A from applying protection scheme on non-copyrighted material, it is impossible to create a tool that will target only non-copyrighted material, and will not work for copyrighted material offered by company A.
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