| reply to The Limit
Re: Time to arrest the developer of the program. said by The Limit:Are you trolling? Or do you really think developers that mod Verizon phones should be thrown in jail?
They are technically violating the law are they not? It's up to local prosecutor to decide the question of prosecution. |
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| No. It is not illegal to defeat DRM unless it results in a Title 17 violation. If they were defeating DRM to get access to software they would have had to purchase (basically copyright infringement), that is different.
Simply put, the DMCA does not make defeating DRM in and of itself illegal. |
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| reply to silentlooker
It would not be the local prosecutor making that decision.
Also, the lack of an exemption doesn't implicitly mean it is illegal. |
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