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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

But isn’t it ineffective once it’s been bypassed, therefore making it legal again?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately that’s not what they mean by “effective.” They define it like this:

    a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

    The key verbiage there is “in the ordinary course of its operation.”

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