Hi,
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Originally Posted by Wasgo
I agree that eBooks are not a popular format to decrypt, but I'm also not expecting any new eBook DRMs soon either. If there comes a time when I can't decrypt eBooks anymore, I'll stop buying them.
If the tools were legally protected, there would be no purpose for DRM in the first place. It would be simpler to require consumers' rights than to support both the implementation of DRM and its removal.
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There you are wrong. The Kindle DRM has changed a number of times in the last two years and continues to change.
I do think people should be able to create drm removal software legally so that consumer rights are protected and because it should be the act of piracy that should be outlawed not the tool. Using that logic, anything that could possibly be misused in any way to cause financial (or physical harm) to another should be outlawed. No one sane is asking for that. It is the misuse itself that should be outlawed.
Which brings me back to my main point, if you outlaw the development of the software that removes DRM even for fair-use purposes, then you are allowing DRM to completely trump fair-use or fair-dealing.
I believe you claimed it does not - but you would need a court verdict in your favour to get that right back which I feel never should be taken away in the first place.
Bill C11 will really hurts those with blind users that use the tools to enable Text To Speech on their purchased ebooks. Amazon does tie their DRM to their TTS metadata flags which prevents this now.
When this law passes, blind users will be worse off than if they lived under the more draconian laws of the States - a very sad statement for Canada!
I have my fingers crossed that the Pierre Poutine scandal will grow and the Conservatives will lose their majority and good common sense politics will return to Canada with no one side able to push through laws without the help from another party. I know I am grasping at straws here!
Take care,
KevinH