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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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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Please note: I didn't write
anything about the legality (or lack thereof) of
actually cracking the DRM (for personal use only, on legally acquired content). Legal opinions differ on the subject. I've heard eminent legal scholars tell a graduate seminar that it's squeaky-clean legal. And heard
other eminent legal scholars tell the same seminar that it's obviously illegal. In the end, we won't know until there's a court case.
What I wrote about was the legality of telling others about DRM-removal tools, how to use such tools, and where to get such tools. Sadly, that part is not in dispute -- everyone agrees that the DMCA makes the second and third of those illegal (and may or may not make the first illegal). And
that is the liability we don't want to expose our hosts to.
Xenophon