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Re:Nintendo's big piracy case is a sad story by boomboomsubban on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:36PM (#31687845)
The law includes a definition of that term

>a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

So bypassing trivial DRM is still a crime.

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Re:Nintendo's big piracy case is a sad story by inlined on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:49PM (#31688401)
Iirc there is case precedence for Adobe successfully invoking the DMCA with a ROT13 protection system. That’s the software equivalence off a child’s decoder ring and can be done in BASH built in (`tr`)
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