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Old 01-18-2009, 06:49 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by llasram View Post
I was curious enough to try to drill down into the legal code involved. IANAL, but the US DMCA has this definition:



I'm not sure an open specification meets that standard, as there is no chain of trust necessitating "the authority of the copyright owner" in order to unlock the work.
Isn't a key/password supplied by the book seller/publisher "authority of the copyright owner"?
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