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by Aaargh20318 957 days ago
> The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits circumventing an effective technological means of control that restricts access to a copyrighted work. I guess that would apply here.

It doesn't if you're not in the US.

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Kim Dotcom believed so too, didn't fare too well.
Megaupload did business in the US, they had a lot of servers in the US. IIRC that was the basis for his arrest: the crime took place on US territory.
12ft.io and vercel have servers in US, so what's your argument here?