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Circumventor

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cir·cum·vent  (sûrkm-vnt)
tr.v. cir·cum·vent·ed, cir·cum·vent·ing, cir·cum·vents
1. To surround (an enemy, for example); enclose or entrap.
2. To go around; bypass: circumvented the city.
3. To avoid or get around by artful maneuvering: She planned a way to circumvent all the bureaucratic red tape.
[Middle English circumventen, from Latin circumvenre, circumvent- : circum-, circum- + venre, to go, come; see gw- in Indo-European roots.]
circum·venter, circum·ventor n.
circum·vention n.
circum·ventive adj.
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33) In the case of a circumventing device or service, the circumventor may be subject to an administrative warning, confiscation of any illegal gains, and confiscation of the devices or components that are primarily used to bypass or circumvent the technological measures.
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122) Therefore, because it prohibits both circumvention and trafficking of circumvention devices, the DMCA acts as a strong deterrent to would-be circumventors of price-discriminating technologies.
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