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[Darian]

On a slightly sideways topic concerning the DMCA, what do you guy think of the ruling against a man who created ROMs of game boy games, was hit with circumventing copy right protections and then claimed that there were no copyright protections on the game boy cartridges?
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If there was any form of copy protection on the cartridges, then he'd be in violation of the DMCA --

Unless, of course, he cracked that protection prior to the passage of the DMCA, since the US Constitution expressly forbids ex post facto legislation. You can't be charged with violating a law if it wasn't a law when you violated it.