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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
How will the enforce this? Unless the government can scan your hard drive to search for liberated books, how will they know you did it?
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They'll build more prisons. Think of all the jobs it will create.
The reality is that it's unenforceable. It's a poorly thought out law and this has been pointed out to the government many times by many different groups but they aren't listening. Removal of DRM could have been legal if there was no copyright violation.
Although the new law gives consumers the right to backup and format shift content that they've purchased, this right is removed if the content is protected by DRM. This in effect gives the companies the ability to write their own copyright.
We will be in the ludicrous position that it will be illegal to watch a legally purchased DVD on a LINUX computer.
My real problem with laws like this is that it builds a contempt for law. For the majority of the people it doesn't change behaviour. You can't explain to someone that what they are doing is wrong or in anyway is hurting anyone other then that it's "illegal" because the government wrote a bad piece of legislation.