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by nikanj 1181 days ago
You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act
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If I've had to deal with that once, I've had to deal with it 13,256,278,887,989,457,­651,­018,­865,­901,­401,­704,­640 times.
You think non Americans give a flying fuck about a DMCA claim?

I would love to be tried, remotely by an american court for breaking DMCA by bypassing DRM for american made software.

Depends of your country, there's a lot of countries with interoperability exceptions to copyright, a lot of EU countries will fall in this category and it's totally legal in those countries to publish DRM hacks and publish software which circumvent such protections automatically.
The DMCA specifically acknowledges that it cannot limit free speech, and it specifically defines what is prohibited:

"No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part"

Mere advise is almost certainly safe.

I can’t see how suggesting to buy off brand ink is illegal