[Publib] Backup copies - Fair Use - Broken DMCA

[blucadet3]

We had to strip the DRM to use songs legally purchased from a download
service in order to even use them for what we purchased them for to begin
with. Its evil.

On 2/16/07, Allen D. Tate <atate at ohio.lib.in.us> wrote:
>
> > 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
> (812) 853-5468 x 313
>
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>
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> those of the Ohio Township Public Library System.
>
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