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user-inactivated · 2892 days ago · link · · parent · post: Save Firefox!

We would need to do away with this, which prevents writing software that handles DRM-encumbered data in ways the DRM seeks to prevent.

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jadedog · 2892 days ago · link ·

Thanks. Could the browser developers take advantage of this (in the wiki)?

Sec. 103(f) of the DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 1201 (f)) says that you are allowed to reverse-engineer a protected program in order to figure out how to get it to interoperate (i.e., exchange and make use of information) with other programs.

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user-inactivated · 2892 days ago · link ·

I don't think so, the lawyers say you can't usually subvert the spirit of the law with the letter, and because they're lawyers and it's the most inconvenient thing it's probably true.

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b_b · 2891 days ago · link ·

Depends on the context. I recently read about a rapist who was let off in Oklahoma or Kansas, somewhere in that region, because their law didn't specifically bar having sex with someone who was unconscious due to intoxication. Letter beat the spirit to hell in that case.

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user-inactivated · 2891 days ago · link ·

Granted, but copyright infringement doesn't get nearly as much slack as rape.

That might be the most depressing sentence I've ever written.