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Breaking the Encryption on a DVD You Own Has No Legal Defense, Regardless of Intent. Anthropic Downloaded Half a Million Pirated Books and Got a Real Day in Court.
An ordinary person circumventing DRM to watch a movie they legally bought has zero fair-use defense available under the DMCA. A company training AI on the same kind of copyrighted material gets an actual, fact-specific fair-use inquiry — one that can go either way, and did, twice, within months.
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