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Originally Posted by ApK
Not according to the fifth circuit court. They say other circumstances have to be true to trigger the DMCA...like a copyright violation.
And the copyright office lists various other situations where circumventing DRM would not be illegal.
But this has all been done in other threads. A lot.
ApK
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Which is why, according to my lawyer, the last thing any book publisher wants is to charge someone with DRM stripping for personal use. They know it would fail in court, and they'd rather pretend the emperor has clothes.
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Originally Posted by faithbw
Getting a person like that to use Adobe Digital Editions might be pushing it since it requires a USB cord, downloading ADE, going to the library website, downloading the book and then drop and dragging it to the device. Easy for me and you, not so easy for lots of other people.
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Indeed, even I find all those things more "difficult" than installing calibre and the plugin. Definitely more tedious.
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Originally Posted by ApK
But if you had someone to help get started, it's now much easier than doing ANYTHING in Audacity....and I say this as an Audacity fan.
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Boy, that's for sure. Even with no help!
It's also easier than many other commonly done things, like setting up a printer or email ap. Just a couple downloads and clicks.
I have a Sony. I like it, but I prefer reading on my Kindle. (It's just most comfy to me, and I prefer its fonts.) I don't feel guilty about reading a library book on a kindle instead of the sony, during the time i am allotted, since I delete them when I'm finished.
But if someone wants to buy a Kindle and use the library, I would advise them to test out the software they'd need first, using K4PC and calibre + tools.