2010-09-18, 06:30 PM
Nope.
Title 1 of the DMCA prohibits "circumvent[ing] a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work"
That includes creating your own bypasses to give yourself access to functionality you have not paid for.
The BSA targets businesses who do that because it has more chance of getting damages than it would from an average user.
No one targets average users generally because they're not worth it, they go for suppliers who have bigger penalties and can be made examples of in the deluded attempt to "stop" it from happening.
Title 1 of the DMCA prohibits "circumvent[ing] a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work"
That includes creating your own bypasses to give yourself access to functionality you have not paid for.
The BSA targets businesses who do that because it has more chance of getting damages than it would from an average user.
No one targets average users generally because they're not worth it, they go for suppliers who have bigger penalties and can be made examples of in the deluded attempt to "stop" it from happening.