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See also farmers repairing their tractors. Arguably you can just write DO NOT COPY on a sticker on the disc and then it's illegal to circumvent the sticker.
by gzread 7mo ago
See also farmers repairing their tractors. Arguably you can just write DO NOT COPY on a sticker on the disc and then it's illegal to circumvent the sticker.
- eesmith 7mo agoIn the US the law makes it illegal to 'circumvent a technological measure', defined as: > descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner where > a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work. A sticker doesn't count as a "technological measure".
- pocksuppet 7mo agoA sticker on the data side of the disc, then! Removing the sticker is a process.
- eesmith 7mo agoA sticker is not required for the ordinary course of its operation.