The story about a ruling in the MGE case crossed my feeds yesterday but I was too frazzled to dig into it and comment. That was an oversight, this ruling could have farther ranging impacts, restoring some of the non-infringing uses that the DMCA stripped out of copyright on digital works with its anti-circumvention provision. Mike Masnick at Techdirt has a good summary of the facts of the case and the critical nuances in the ruling. Unfortunately, breaking DRM for any reason is still forbidde
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Thomas Gideon
Aka cmdln
Hacker, podcaster, hacktivist