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Originally Posted by Sonist
Wow!
The only way to deal with this is at the ballot box: don't vote for a representative, who support DMCA-like legislation, and vote for those who oppose it, regardless of party affiliation. And let them know why. If Joe the Plumber makes enough noise, at least some will respond.
BTW, is there a list of who supports DMCA-type legislation somewhere, and who opposes the DMCA?
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DCMA isn't really even involved in this actually. Amazon is using this as a red herring. DCMA is for copyright protection and this tool does not break or even tamper with anything to do with copyrights. It is a tool that effects locking Amazon's reader to only use Amazon's eBooks. It forces the reader but does nothing to protect the author or publisher. There are other tools that can break DRM but this particular tool does not do that. This is really a monopoly issue.
I don't like DCMA anymore that you do but it is being misused IMHO.
Dale