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Originally Posted by Grimm
I don't particularly care what you think save to say that your statement is false. People are putting forth that it is a criminal matter if you break DRM. It is NOT a criminal matter at all. That makes it relevant. Don't like me pointing out that FACT? Cool, I don't care.
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Originally Posted by FF2
Jail time versus a possible monetary penalty is more than semantics. Crimes can send one to jail. Civil legal wrongs can be punished with monetary awards. If Amazon could not sold the drm-stripped book for a sony reader, their LOSS might be zero - a jury of one's peers might award them one penny or more but not impose jail time.
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We weren't discussing penalties here, just whether something was illegal or not. In this instance, Grimm, your bringing the difference was semantical nitpicking. Too often here, I've seen legal semantics used as an argument to condone doing something illegal just because the penalties or the method of prosecution was different. However, it doesn't matter if one carries a lighter penalty (even to the point of being virtually nonexistant), if it's illegal, it's illegal.