Read the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Article 11 of the WCT states:
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Contracting Parties shall provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remdies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors in connection with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which are not authorized by the authors concerned or permitted by law.
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Article 18 of the WPPT contains nearly identical language:
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Section 103 of the DCMA adds a new chapter 12 to the Title 17 of the U.S. Code. New section 1201 impliments the obligation to provide adequate and effective protection against circumvention of technological measures used by copyright owners to protect their works.
Section 1201 divides technological measures into two categories: measures that prevent unauthorized access to a copyrighted work and measures that prevent unauthorized copying of a copyrighted work. Making or selling devices or services that are used to circumvent either category of technological measure is prohibited in certian circumstances, described below. As to the act of circumvention in itself, the provision prohibits circumventing the first category of technological measures, but not the second.
This distinction was employed to assure that the public will have the continued ability to make fair use of copyrighted works. Since copying of a work may be a fair use under appropriate circumstances, section 1201 does not prohibit the act of circumventing a technological measure that prevents copying. By contrast, since the fair use doctrine is not a defence to the act of gaining unauthorized access to a work, the act of circumventing a technological measure in order to gain access is prohibited.
Section 1201 proscriber devices or services that fall wityhin and one of the following three categories:
-they are primarily designed or produced to circumvent;
-they have only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent; or
-they are marketed for use in circumventing
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To summerize, you cannot produce, have, or market a divice or service that circumvents legal ownership. PearPC has broken all three.
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Originally Posted by bingle
rr. I think you have a gross misunderstanding of the law, actually.
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I understand exactly what this means. Do you?