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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
And individual users don't have the money to push the issue in court.
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Generally speaking, true. But all it takes is one test case financed by the EFF (who are probably on the lookout for just such a test case) or the ACLU (who probably aren't, but you never know), and all of a sudden, there's national publicity over how legal it is.
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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
And the civil liberties groups with legal defense funds seem more interested in people's rights to do things like speak freely, not get racially profiled, and so on. For some reason, the right to unlock e-books registers pretty low on their radar.
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This is exactly the sort of thing the EFF gets involved in. They haven't in this particular issue
because there hasn't been a test case available. There haven't been any lawsuits over consumers exercising their right to shift formats under the DMCA for them to defend against. There's no sign that there ever will be.