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Reminder from the MPAA: DRM trumps your fair use rights | Ars Technica

“As part of this week’s RealDVD court hearings, Real continued to argue that the movie studios are trying to prevent fair use. At the same time, the MPAA pushed back by saying that fair use can’t be used to defend against the DMCA’s anticircumvention provisions, since the two are not even related. In fact, this is a gray area of the law that has yet to be fully tested in court. Both sides hope that this case will help sort things out.”

I’m extremely interested to see how this turns out. It could effect how we view digital media for a long time because it would basically redefine what you own and what you can do with things that you purchase.

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Posted on Saturday, May 23, 2009.

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