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Old 02-20-2009, 04:18 PM   #47
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by Xenophon View Post
Politically speaking, I like the way you are thinking. Sadly, the DMCA makes it a felony to provide DRM-cracking tools to someone else, to tell someone where to get such tools, or to tell them how to use the tools. That means that the forum you're suggesting is highly likely to run afoul of DMCA problems. And that would be a bad thing to expose our hosts to.
The DMCA makes it legal to crack the DRM if the DRM prevents the read-aloud feature from working. That means that it's legal in the USA to crack Adobe PDF and MS Reader formats as the DRM blocks the read aloud features.
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