DRM prevents you from downloading copies of books you've purchased from online storefronts, but is it legal to bypass DRM to create backups? Cory Doctorow, an expert on the DMCA, weighs in on the subject.

Title from the article. Interesting article, with some good words from our DRM-free favorite Cory Doctorow.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Well the US doesn’t seem to want to honour trade agreements. Those of US outside the US should be contemplating whether to honour things like the DMCA when we’re not even in their country…

    • zout@fedia.io
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      1 month ago

      I’m not even contemplating this. In my country I’m bound to follow the laws of my country, not of other countries. I don’t know most of the laws in the US, and I don’t desire to learn them since I don’t see myself travelling there in the future. Same goes for the laws of other oppressive regimes like Iran or Russia.