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Originally Posted by daffy4u
If that is true, I can see a new business that would be wildly popular.
Book buyer in DCMA country sends a DRMed ebook to a service in another country where having DRM tools is not illegal. For a small fee or free (if they want to "stick it to the man"), the service will remove the DRM from the book and send it back to.
Book buyer in DCMA country has hands that are clean since they do not own the DRM tools but still get a DRM free book.  |
Well, "Book Buyer" might find out the hard way that he has conspired to violate the law - that is, conspired with the provider of the service, even though he personally doesn't profit. So even if the provider is beyond the reach of the law, Book Buyer wouldn't be...
Here's the law again:
1204. Criminal offenses and penalties
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Any person who violates section 1201 or
1202 willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private
financial gain—
Notice that it does not say
whose commercial advantage it has to be for. (BTW, I think that even a free service might be regarded as one involving "commercial advantage" for the service provider, far-fetched as that might seem.)
That's why I have been careful to say that it's only "do it yourself, for yourself" unDRMing that is kosher. When you start involving other people, all bets are off...