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The DMCA explicitly carves out copyright exceptions for interoperability and repair. Tell me what law protected your right against copyright before the DMCA?

• marcosdumay 5y ago
  > against copyright You mean against DRM? The subject has no relation to copyright, except on how those companies keep abusing copyright laws. Anyway, you don't need protection against DRM if you don't criminalize breaking DRM. And yeah, it carves out an exception for repair. It's funny how a narrow exception in an overbroad law ends up having no effect on practice.
  • ChrisLomont 5y ago
    >You mean against DRM? The subject has no relation to copyright What do you think the C in DMCA stands for? >It's funny how a narrow exception in an overbroad law ends up having no effect on practice. Simply untrue. There are massive collections of things gathered under and repaired under this "no effect" exemption. Sometime take a look at the dozens of exemptions allowing all sorts of repair, reverse engineering for interoperability, removing of copy protection where needed to continue to use items, etc. [1] Or just Google DMCA 1201 exemptions and read blog posts. You'll be surprised. [1] https://www.copyright.gov/1201/ https://www.copyright.gov/1201/