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Old 05-15-2009, 02:38 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
My overall position was simply that regardless of the merits of copyright law (or contract law as you pointed out) that Amazon is within their right to side with their suppliers and turn off TTS.
But that's exactly what's false here: Amazon is NOT above the law, namely the (otherwise also largely illegal/anti-constitutional) DMCA which specifically dressed this issue by creating exemptions.

In other words in best case Amazon's/publisher's active prohibition amounts to nothing else but to trying to block the law which is illegal.
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