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> How is one supposed to exercise their right to Fair Use without "bypassing" technological measures via tools like these?

Fair use is not a right. It's a defence. You're still infringing copyright, but this is an infringement that they cannot punish. Importantly, law makers see fair use as a restriction of the rights of the copyright holder, not as a right granted to users of that IP.

People have always known that DMCA interferes with these defences. See for example this from 2001: https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...



> You're still infringing copyright

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work ... is not an infringement of copyright.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107


The 9th Circuit in Lenz v. Universal disagrees.




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