Well, in my opinion it's a stretch to get anxious that Mobileread would get shut down just because people occasionally posted links to DRM removal tools here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even Apprentice Alf's site has been around for quite some time and neither it nor wordpress.com have been shut down, so why would anyone with a few posts linking there be? I saw a funny report over there that one of Alf's posts had been blocked from Google search results based on a DMCA complaint, but this wasn't even about ebooks at all, apparently it happened because some artist named Calibre thought they were pirating his songs or something...
Tell me that isn't funny.
I think the whole thing is more about whether a site wants to be seen as "mainstream" and attract "law-abiding" people, including those who think it's important to strictly obey
any kind of law, no matter how ill-conceived. It's like for some reason nowadays there's no middle ground between that and being seen as a "rogue" site where all those who go there must be "pirates". If a physical bookstore told you you could only read the books you bought there in your home and not on a train, a park bench or anywhere else, everyone would think it outrageous, but for some reason it's OK for ebook sellers to demand lock-in to their device and if you're not OK with that you're suddenly a "pirate" who "circumvents" stuff. More like these companies are trying to circumvent
our common sense rights to read the books we buy wherever and however we like.
I only just became a member here so I'm not saying I know best, but anyway I think if it's allowed to direct others to search for Apprentice Alf, the end result is exactly the same as linking to it directly, at least if we're talking about "the spirit of the law". Like in my own case, I totally didn't need the now removed direct link someone posted in that other thread, the roundabout talk was enough for me to easily find the Kepub DRM crack. So if I were a lawyer I could probably argue that a verbal explanation of how to get somewhere is no different than writing down the address of the place. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't have a problem with the current policy here, but if someone thinks it's the perfect way to cover your asses then I have my doubts about that.