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Old 04-02-2010, 01:14 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
It's debatable. If the use you want is allowable by copyright law--within the range of fair use, or complete copying of a book that's in the public domain--the digital millennium *copyright* act doesn't come into play. If no "digital rights" apply to the book (or your use of it), then whatever software is preventing its use isn't technically DRM.

(Warning: IANAL. I suggest consulting one--a *good* one, with a lot of experience in copyfight activism--before attempting this argument in court.)

Also, of course, people not in the US are not subject to the DMCA.

IANAL either, but when I looked at the details of the DMCA, my understanding of it was that it prohibited *all* DRM circumvention unless explicitly allowed. The list of allowed exemptions is available on wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA#An...ion_exemptions, and there is more information here: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/

From what I see here, personal use is not allowed. Now, as far as I understand, nobody has been prosecuted for removing DRM for personal use, but that does not mean that it's allowed.
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