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If they don't have a licence to distribute your software, it's plain copyright infringement. The same as selling photocopies of a book.

The DMCA criminalises breaking DRM, or providing tools to do so, such as distributing a tool to remove the DRM from an e-book.



The Digital Millennium Copyright Act also does have provisions related to copyright infringement, not just circumvention devices.




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