Circuit City and Fair Use.
Circut City is offering to help people transfer their movies from legally purchased copies to their portable media players, the right to do this has been upheld in court, but there is a problem.
From Ars Technica: "Even if fair use clearly provides users the 'right' to make backup and private transformative copies of works that they have purchased, the DMCA itself makes it illegal to circumvent encrypted access controls for any reason not allowed for by the Library of Congress. "
From Ars Technica: "Even if fair use clearly provides users the 'right' to make backup and private transformative copies of works that they have purchased, the DMCA itself makes it illegal to circumvent encrypted access controls for any reason not allowed for by the Library of Congress. "
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