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> their paid video content There are a large number of situations where you have to break protection mechanisms on content you've legally purchased in order to
by ethbro 10y ago
> their paid video content
There are a large number of situations where you have to break protection mechanisms on content you've legally purchased in order to exercise your previously existing and legal rights to use it as an owner.
- 6stringmerc 10y ago...and it happens day in and day out, and until I see drastic legal cases of enforcement going out and ruining companies and individual people and families I don't believe that the threat is particularly concerning. It exists, okay, and cleaning up 1201 would be great, but we're talking more about First Sale here in principle.
- ethbro 10y agoThe ability to chill new development through ambiguously enforced law is just as important as the prohibitions actually in law.
- 6stringmerc 10y agoDefine new development - the security researcher has extremely valid standing, but "editing and chopping video" isn't new development in the phrasing this case presents.