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Originally Posted by Nathanael
Restrictions. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.
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That leads inquiring minds to wonder ... what is the Digital Content (when did that become a proper noun?) being "protected" from? From me sharing copies of it? DRM wouldn't stop me from doing that if I wanted to (no more than it does the people who keep the darknet humming), so it's clearly not "protecting" the book. In fact, the only thing that does prevent me from doing so is my moral values and my conscience. So what I'd be agreeing to, in that case, would be to not bypass my own conscience. No problem, I don't make a habit of going all psycho anyway.
I know that's not what Amazon
means (which is one of the reasons why I won't touch their books with a barge pole) but I'd love to see someone argue that in court, because I think (IANAL, of course, or I wouldn't think such silly things) that it might work. It doesn't say features that
are intended to "protect" the content, only those that
do so, which means if I can break it, it's not much of a "protective" feature, right?