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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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Being able to complain about something and actually having a legal basis for it are entirely different things. I don't think Amazon really had any legal backing for their complaint against Mobileread. It was a fairly blatant (although common) misuse of a DMCA takedown request. The reason Amazon got away with it is that Mobileread, understandably, doesn't have the desire to stand up to them in court.
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Skylarov was prosecuted under federal law for violating the DMCA, without any connecting copyright infringement charge.
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I'm not saying you can't be prosecuted without any connecting copyright infringement, but I also doubt Skylarov would have even been tried if Adobe hadn't complained about it to the US government. I don't think this is something federal law enforcement is really looking for on their own. My point is that even anti-circumvention tool cases are probably triggered by individual publisher/artist complaints.