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Pretty sure that temporary exemption expired and was not renewed.

• LukeShu 7y ago
  The exemption was renewed in 2006 and in 2010 (the would-be-2009 decision was delivered late), but was not renewed in 2012. That said, the exemption was to allow legally bypassing the copy-protection mechanisms; that were preventing otherwise-legal copying. Once they bypassed the mechanism to get a non-copy-protected copy in 2003-2012, they may continue distributing copies of it now, since the act of copying was/is legal; it's the act of breaking the DRM that is once again forbidden.
  • pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    Distributing copyright works without a license is usually infringing though.
    • LukeShu 7y ago
      I'm not familiar with the details, but it is my understanding that their status as a library helps a lot with that side of it.