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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It occurs to me that after Tor's "Redshirts" release--intended to be DRM-free; DRM still applied at several vendors--publishers who wish to support DRM-free ebooks could release their books to several vendors, announce that they are intended to be DRM-free, and *distribute DRM-stripping software*--because the DMCA kicks in with "(A) to "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner" (emphasis added)... if you've got the authority of the copyright owner, DRM removal is legal.
Also, on distribution of same:
Hmm. In the case of Redshirts, the DRM-stripping software is protecting the right of a copyright owner: it's allowing the materials to be copied to alternate devices, as the copyright owner wishes.
It looks like copyright owners are free to say, "If my stuff is DRM'd, I don't want that; please, download this program and remove the DRM."
IANAL. TINLA. Consult someone with a lot more legal authority before trying this argument in court.
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1. Tor Books (and my) intent is to sell the Redshirts eBook DRM-free.
2. If you have a Redshirts eBook that has DRM on it, it’s not something that we asked for or want.
3. If for some unfathomable reason your preferred vendor has put DRM on your copy of the Redshirts eBook, I’m just gonna leave this here for you.
4. Feel free to complain to the retailer in question about adding DRM, and point them to this entry as evidence that their DRM is going against my and Tor’s wishes for the eBook.
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Now we do have the copyright holder (in this case the author) saying go ahead and strip off the DRM if
Redshirts has DRM. In fact, this may very well make the tools legal.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/06/0...-re-redshirts/