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Originally Posted by JoeD
Unless it became legal for applications to now include the tools built in.
I'm not so much thinking about Calibre here, as anyone who downloads that doesn't need to do much more to get the plugin too. Although it would mean it could be officially bundled with Calibre or available on their site and that would allow the Calibre author to vet plugins for malware before making a build and uploading. For plugins he wants to do that for anyway.
I'm thinking more along the lines of that movie ripping app that lost a case fairly recently for allowing users to convert DVDs to a digital library and stream across their home network. If that kind of use was included in the amendment, a lot would change for the better.
If however the wording ends up only allowing the kind of use that is already going on via Alf. Perhaps it'd have minimal impact, but it'd still be nice to know everyone doing it isn't breaking the law anymore  |
To all of those that don't understand why this is a big deal: This, so much this. Even if there's no way you would ever be taken to court over the anti-circumvention language, it still has a chilling effect on the development of software tools that you would otherwise be able to buy.
The restriction does affect you, even if you don't notice it.