DMCA Anti-Circumvention Provisions
Comments discuss the legality of circumventing DRM and technological protections under the US DMCA Section 1201, including debates on fair use, exemptions, and comparisons to international laws.
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There's also a provision in the DMCA law about "circumventing copyright law"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201Which you could argue this falls into.
I suspect they're talking about circumvention of technical DRM measures.https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
I'm not a lawyer, but this would likely fall under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#United_Stat...
If there's any copy-protection, you'd need to circumvent it, so plausibly the DMCA.
IANAL, but this is probably a violation of DMCA anti-circumvention provisions.
Not sure about the Europe, but at least in the US the DMCA makes illegal to bypass/circumvent drm technologies.
What are you talking about? The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent software locks.
Didn't the DMCA make bypassing copy protections illegal?
This probably counts as "circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work" under the DMCA and is thus illegal.
It might fall under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? The DMCA criminalises the act of circumventing an access control mechanism.