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Old 02-01-2012, 02:14 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
DRM removal is not illegal in the UK; there is no law which prohibits it.
As has been said above, there are three pieces of EU legislation that cover copyright of electronic works (including literary).

European Directive 2001/29/EC, and the amendments to the Copyright Act (EU Regulation 2003/2498 EC on Copyright and Related Rights Regulations and EU Regulation 2003/2426 EC on Privacy and Electronic Communications)

These make DRM infringement identical to copyright infringement. This is made clear in section 17.2 of the British Academy's guidelines on copyright: http://www.britac.ac.uk/policy/copyr...delines.cfm#17

Whether it's illegal for private use is a very grey area - recording onto tape was illegal, but I doubt it stopped many people making backups of their very expensive cassettes (or CDs, DVDs or MP3s).

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