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Originally Posted by Egh
Legally speaking they own copyright for *source code* for a particular DRM implementation, not to DRM as a method per se. Copyright does NOT cover idea, method etc. That's covered by a rather different legal tool called "patent".
Whenever DRM removal programs actually violate any drm-related patents, I cannot say since I dont' even know if any exist
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Interesting... obviously the DRM would be patented by Microsoft... But is it a patent violation to un-DRM a file...Are there any cases on this before in the US?