If I have a volunteer service where people ask me to come after the paperboy and individually redact all the ads in the newspaper with a marker, am I breaking the same law?
If I have a volunteer service where people ask me to come after the paperboy and individually redact all the ads in the newspaper with a marker, am I breaking the same law?
No
Why not? You're creating a derivative work without the permission of the copyright holder.
Because software has insane legal protections that no other medium has.
Exactly, another example is that physical mail has way more legal protections than e-mail or any online communication.