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Comment by LoganDark

3 months ago

The post includes a link to a GitHub repository containing code to circumvent the DRM, which probably counts as "technology" and "component".

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semiquaver  3 months ago

I covered that in my comment. It’s likely the code violates § 1201 but I doubt the post does. And linking to infringing content is not legally the same thing as publishing it.

  • zerocrates  3 months ago

    2600 got enjoined from linking to DeCSS and that got upheld on appeal, on the basis that linking violated the DMCA's anti-trafficking provisions. From the district court case:

    > Defendants then linked their site to those "mirror" sites, after first checking to ensure that the mirror sites in fact were posting DeCSS or something that looked like it, and proclaimed on their own site that DeCSS could be had by clicking on the hyperlinks on defendants' site. By doing so, they offered, provided or otherwise trafficked in DeCSS.

    The appeal was mostly about whether the DMCA and/or the specific injunction in question violated the First Amendment, and the court found that it didn't.

    (Universal City Studios vs. Reimerdes at the district court level, Universal City Studios v. Corley at the circuit)