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Originally Posted by rlauzon
You seem to be ignorant of the law. Breaking DRM is not illegal in the U.S.
The DMCA only prohibits you from figuring out how to break DRM and then publishing (in either code or written word) how it was done.
If you want to crack the DRM on your eBooks, you are free do do so. You just can't tell anyone how you did it.
It's perfectly legal for me to download some software to rip my DVDs to play on my portable video player. It's not legal for me to distribute such software.
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With respect, Lauzon, your views do not agree with other information I have found. Eg, the Wikipedia article on the DMCA says:
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as DRM) and criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, even when there is no infringement of copyright itself.
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My emphasis added. Note that there are two provisions, the second of which does indeed specifically prohibit the removal of DRM.
According to this, it is indeed illegal to "circumvent an access control" - ie to remove DRM.