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Originally Posted by John F
I thought you could break DRM if it wasn't usable anymore? For example, if adobe decided to shutdown their servers, making ADE drm unusable, then you could strip the DRM on books you own?
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I'm afraid that's not so. The only exception to the prohibition of breaking DRM in the DMCA that applies to e-books (contrary to what some posters here believe or would like to believe) is #6 which applies only to e-books that have DRM that blocks text to speech features in readers. And that one applies only if a particular title has no editions available where text to speech is available. In otherwords, if a particular title is sold by a publisher and none of the editions published will allow text to speech work on a reader (either device or software) because of the DRM, then the DRM maybe legally removed for the purpose of using the book on a text to speech device.
DMCA applies only to the USA, btw.