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.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    The fact that something like this is illegal undermines the rule of law. People get so used to breaking it they don’t respect the institutions which then have less power.

    I’m all for this but some folks with a fetish for hierarchy seem to have a problem with it.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    27 days 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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      27 days 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.