Thread: CNN: Why can't you 'give' an e-book?
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Old 07-30-2010, 11:58 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by pietvo View Post
But that applies to reverse engineering of software to make the software interoperable. It doesn't talk about breaking DRM on ebooks. Maybe it could be applied to interoperability of e.g. ADE and Calibre for the purpose of conversion of DRM'ed ebooks, but I think that would be a tricky legal debate.
I was thinking that it might apply to reverse-engineering DRM to allow a DRM'd book to be read on a different device. E.g. porting the Kindle software to run on something that doesn't support it, in the form of a pass-through module to another reader. It would be an interesting legal challenge.
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