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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are you saying that nobody has ever been prosecuted for removing DRM under the DCMA?
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Yup. That's right. Because removing the DRM is not what's illegal.
Conversely, people
have been prosecuted for producing DRM-removing tools (software as well as hardware). The only case I know of to date was eventually dumped for lack of jurisdiction (the Russian who provided the crack for Adobe's Secure PDF), but there may be others.
So far, the DMCA seems to have been used mostly for its chilling effect. It hasn't really been tested in court. That said, the kind of folks who'd go after you have much much deeper pockets than you do. I certainly wouldn't want to be the test case!
