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Originally Posted by Shades
If they were focusing on the real issue, there was no reason to name Calibre. The fact is, it was named when there was no reason to do so. You saying it doesn't matter means nothing when, for some reason, it did matter to these groups to specifically point out Calibre. They didn't have to, but they did, in a court of law.
Regardless of whether it matters in this case or not, this has the potential to tarnish Calibre's name. It has the potential make Calibre synonymous with DeDRM and illegal activities. That's the point I'm upset with, not the fact it was mentioned. Honestly, attorneys need to do a lot more investigation on the cases they present in court...
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Uh...they posted it
on their web site. Bringing up DeDRM in court after that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, because the tool they named
on their web site was Calibre.
And you know what? I'd bet you $50 that their not mentioning DeDRM by name didn't keep anyone who wanted to from figuring out how to install it into Calibre and remove their DRM with it anyway. From the standpoint of the bookstore, mentioning it was possible via Calibre gave its customers enough to go on to find out how to do it with Calibre for themselves.
You can complain about Abbey House not using the proper terminology all you like, but their imprecision didn't prevent their customers from figuring out what to do, so it's effectively not important to the matter at hand.
It's like all those grammar nuts who get upset when you split an infinitive or end a sentence with a preposition. Even if it's incorrect (which is arguable), it doesn't make any difference because they were able to get their meaning across anyway.
I have little doubt that if anyone
did try to tell the court about DeDRM, it would have been brushed aside as irrelevant. From the court's standpoint, and the standpoint of the publishers, Abbey House provided its customers with enough information to allow them to figure out how to break the DRM and then do it. The "how" of it isn't important.