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Re: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim New LAA Workaround

Nov 22, 2011, 21:42

Crustacean Soup

StingingVelvet wrote on Nov 22, 2011, 21:18: Jerykk wrote on Nov 22, 2011, 17:21: Beelzebud wrote on Nov 22, 2011, 17:20: Get a cracked .exe and be done with it, then. It's not piracy if you bought the game. It's still illegal, though. Some courts have said bypassing DRM is not illegal unless there is an intent to distribute, actually. Doing it to make a backup is arguably just fine. The DMCA might say otherwise, but the whole point is that the DMCA is being slowly refined in court. One of those grey areas when new law is being written and argued over. Do you have a cite? Distributing tools, even for "personal use" is a violation, and I've never heard that using those tools for personal use is any different. The language "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title" is quite clear. This was a DRM-circumvention, with no copyrighted material infringed upon otherwise. Illegal. Here the EFF requested an exemption to allow people to break DRM to play broken audio CDs, or to play foreign movies. Denied. The EFF did get an exemption for ripping DVDs in order to use the work in another material (so long as the use was Fair Use or otherwise permitted). This is now allowed, and a specific exemption exists for it. That doesn't make other "personal use" scenarios legal. Other nations specifically permit personal use (IIRC the Canadian-equivalent that's not yet passed, while flawed in many other ways, does appear to allow this, or at least to try to).

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