On 08/01/13 21:29, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> On 8 January 2013 20:10, Alan Pope <alan.pope@???> wrote:
>> What law is being broken by having or distributing these "illegal" keys?
>
> I think it's that law that says you can't circumvent encryption. That
> made it an offence in itself even if what you are doing (e.g. playing
> your own disk on another device) is otherwise perfectly legal.
That's the case for the US under the DMCA. I'm not sure what Act it
would fall under in this country, if any. Possibly the Computer Misuse
Act, but there would have to be case law to show that it covered this
scenario.
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