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To: antiRepublicrat
You have basically claimed

No, quite obviously, you just attempted to put words in my mouth. Distributing cracks, as you continue to make excuses for, can be criminal. Meanwhile making backups of one's own media doesn't appear to be. Quit trying to confuse the two, as a defense for your lies defending the Russian hackers that cracked OSX.

64 posted on 01/21/2007 1:36:58 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Distributing cracks, as you continue to make excuses for, can be criminal.

And what you don't seem to grasp is that the method to backup a DVD is an illegal crack under the same law that makes you call the Russians criminals. Plus, almost every time someone "illegally" cracks the DVD DRM in order to make a DVD backup, the region coding that you slammed me for circumventing is also removed.

Quit trying to confuse the two, as a defense for your lies defending the Russian hackers that cracked OSX.

There's no confusion here. The tool to backup a DVD and the tool to install OS X on a Dell are both illegal under exactly the same law, Sec. 1201 of the DMCA. It was also this section that was used to criminally prosecute Elcomsoft for cracking PDF files.

65 posted on 01/21/2007 4:21:36 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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