On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 05:59, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > The DMCA does not require copyright violation, what is illegal is > "circumventing" the protection measure, it doesn't really matter if > the replacement code has the same functionality or not.
Decryption is a different matter - that's banned whether it is done for the purpose of providing the same functionality or not. Providing identical functionality to correctly implement other mechanisms not involving decryption is not as much of a problem.
