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Originally Posted by Pizza_Cant_Read
Personally, I feel whiplash when I see someone chastised and the more open and liberal we can be with our rules the better.
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You have to walk that line between free discussion and having MobileRead beset by lawyers.
That happened years back to one forum I used to lurk in when some of the discussions went overboard in discussing circumventing software that was locked by such means as a physical dongle (or "how to Unlock HardLock"), needing a CD in the drive with a sideline in damaged CDs so a copy without the damage wouldn't work, etc. Evidently some of the software companies were not happy with such discussions and invoked the DMCA. Talk about taking a sledgehammer to swat a mosquito -- who knew that a judge could decide copying a program from your hard drive to RAM constituted making a second unauthorized copy.
Looking at the MobileRead FAQs check section 8 of the
Posting Guidelines"
While DRM removal may be discussed in the abstract, the following are not allowed at MobileRead:
discussing DRM removal to pirate content;
providing detailed how-to instructions;
uploading of DRM-removal tools;
direct download links to DRM-removal tools.
Further information on our policy on copyright, uploads and DRM can be found
here.