[Publib] Backup copies - Fair Use - Broken DMCA

[Allen D. Tate]

> Breaking the encryption to make a copy is the illegal part.

The DMCA is very ambiguously worded just to confuse us. :)

As I've always understood the DMCA, breaking the encryption wasn't 
necessarily illegal, it was telling someone else how to break it.

That brings me to my semi-annual rant against the DMCA & DRM and all 
that other anti-fair use garbage the big corporations pay our 
politicians to shove down our throats. Please give your local 
representatives a collective kick in the pants to have them start 
undoing this damage. :)
-- 
Allen D. Tate
Head of Computer Services
Ohio Township Public Library System
4111 Lakeshore Dr
PO Box 850
Newburgh, IN 47629
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