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Originally Posted by nekokami
HarryT, I'd be very surprised if you're right on this. There have been quite a few well publicized cases recently where media publishers have gone after people who made "unlocking" tools available to break various forms of DRM. I've picked up a pretty strong impression that in the US, distributing the tools themselves is illegal under the DMCA. I don't agree that this should be the case, but I think that's the way the US law reads currently.
(Isn't it ironic that we should be having this somewhat role-reversed conversation?)
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Oh well - it just seems a reasonable thing to do, but I'm certainly not a lawyer and nobody said that the law had to make sense
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