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by xg15 1143 days ago
> The underlying point you should be calling out if you want to present this argument is that "User freedom should prevail over companies' freedom".

I'm still baffled by the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause in that regard. While users are given some rights in the DMCA, companies seem to be perfectly free to trample over those rights using technological restrictions. If users then try to circumvent those restrictions, suddenly they are in violation of the law.