Thread: Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books
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Old 03-15-2009, 01:51 PM   #388
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
This is not true. As has been pointed out in other threads legal fair use of material does not make DRM circumvention legal.
So how does "PDF password recovery" software survive? This is probably 99.99% of the time used to break password protection, but if you forget your password it will get it back for you and so the software it is legal. Or am I missing some other legal loophole that allows this software to exist?

It isn't software (or the DMCA), but the classic example is Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. where "the technology in question had significant non-infringing uses".

Amazon could resolve the issue by getting OverDrive to refuse to authorize Amazon PIDs. They would then be on much stronger ground, and OverDrive should be applauded for resisting what I am sure has been intense pressure to do so.
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