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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Is the distribution of tools covered by the DMCA civil or criminal? I would have thought that it would be prosecuted by the individual copyright holders as well. Even if it is criminal, I'm not sure it's something that the feds are really looking for, or if they would just react to individual author/publisher complaints.
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Must not be required to be attached to individual copyright owners, or Amazon wouldn't have been able to complain about Mobileread's links to the kindlepid script.
Skylarov was prosecuted under federal law for violating the DMCA, without any connecting copyright infringement charge.