Thread: Amazon uses DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books
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Old 03-15-2009, 05:35 PM   #400
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Such software is illegal in the UK, and probably many other places too. You can buy lots of things which are illegal to actually use - eg "macrovision" decoder boxes for removing the copy protection from DVDs.
Yeah, i guess that would be illegal in france too. "Protection measures can't be bypassed for no reason whatsoever" , say the DADVSI.
Then the APRIL (free software foundation), had some yell, that ended up in adding "except for interoperability reasons"
Yeah, reading DVD with linux is legal again
And well, getting rid of the drm on my E-books is for interoperability too. So it's not a mess when i gets a new pc or reader.

Worse part is that this kind of thing never prevent people to crack things if they want to.It's just a pain to the customers.
Music industry is begining to understand that, they're going no drm, slowly, but surely. What's the book industry's waiting for ?
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