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Originally Posted by Shaggy
But DRM on a public domain work is NOT a copyright protection scheme. I don't think the DMCA would apply.
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This is a simple legal technicality, but the DMCA does not specify the nature of the material that is being protected, only the protection scheme. I wonder if you are allowed to break a protection scheme which (as a member of the public) you have some ownership of the content therein...
I suspect, regardless of the content, someone could effectively prosecute you in court for breaking their protection scheme, on that virtue alone.
Furthermore, being in the public domain, I don't think B&N has any responsibility to ensure your ability to copy/move/distribute the material (as with GPL.) If that's the case, then why get up in arms about it? They have as much right as we do to mess around with it...