Topic: Breaking copy protection NOT always a DMCA violation.  (Read 1176 times)

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Breaking copy protection NOT always a DMCA violation.
« on: July 25, 2010, 04:40:36 pm »
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"The DMCA prohibits only forms of access that would violate or impinge on the protections that the Copyright Act otherwise affords copyright owners."


At least one judge understands that a EULA or copy protection doesn't stop you from using what you BOUGHT in otherwise legal ways.   Now if only the  worlds law makers would listen.

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"The owner's technological measure must protect the copyrighted material against an infringement of a right that the Copyright Act protects, not from mere use or viewing."


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