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Originally Posted by John F
Is it acceptable by MR to post intentional false or mis-information? I'm hoping to get an official MR moderator ruling, but opinions are welcome.
I personally wouldn't do it, but from what I've seen, IMO, false/mis-information is acceptable as long as it is promoting MR guidelines.
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Are you referring to my statement:
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I was under the impression that the tools include code to check for library metadata.
Either way, I can think of worse things to do than "mistakenly" encourage people to not bother trying to DeDRM library ebooks.
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In fact, it is true that the tools contain that code.
Maybe it doesn't work anymore, I thought it does work. (For obvious reasons I haven't checked to see.
) I could drop a line to apprenticeharper that that code needs to be checked to see if it still works, I guess.
Given that people still post to Alf's blog complaining that they can't illegally steal library ebooks, it would *seem* to work...
Anyway, as far as I know telling a falsehood is not against the forum guidelines. I should hope that a white lie isn't going to incur the wrath of the moderators.
EDIT: As issybird says in the post below, not an ethical or effective strategy. Even if that
had been my intent, I don't know whether it should be deserving of moderator wrath though.
Just call out the falsehood. Of course, that might be encouraging piracy!
