Quote: "The owner's technological measure must protect the copyrighted material against an infringement of a right that the Copyright Act protects, not from mere use or viewing.
Ah. Now that does make sense. So long as it's not a violation of copyright to do what you want to do, it's not a DMCA violation?
That DRM cracks and the like are essentially legal, provided you've already bought that game, if the purpose of the crack is to just get the thing working correctly? I've had a couple of games (STALKER Clear Sky especially) fail to run because of SecureROM refusing the comprehend that yes that is the original game disk in the drive.
edit: The Register has an article on this and other exceptions.... notably jailbreaking the iPhone.
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