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by segmondy 3913 days ago
Don't be naive. If you circumvent DRM or protection, i.e jailbreak your phone. Then you share it with the world on your website, because you believe in user's freedom.

Well, you're screwed if you have ads on your site. Imagine, your site get's popular. You make lots of money from google ads. Ooops, you did it for financial gain. Try proving you didn't.
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roel_v 3913 days ago
What part is contended? In your example, the person is making a profit from willful copyright infringement. If this is the most sympathetic hypothetical 'victim' you can come up with, you're going to have a hard time convincing anyone of the 'injustice' of this agreement...
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__david__ 3913 days ago
> In your example, the person is making a profit from willful copyright infringement.

No, the person is not. Removing DRM does not infringe copyright. A jailbreak does not infringe copyright.

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segmondy 3912 days ago
Point is the person didn't decide to break DRM to make a profit. They did it, they have ads on their site. Maybe they don't have ads, but they get a job offer because of their ability to break DRM. It's very easy for the lawyers to stretch what it means to make profit. Perhaps someone sends them the new iphone13z for free and to break. All that is "profit".
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roel_v 3912 days ago
See the second sentence of another post from me yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336294 ...
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