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Originally Posted by Harpgliss
Hi,
I always thought circumventing the DRM was illegal?
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Depends where you live; in the UK it's absolutely illegal. Some people have an interesting theory that in the US, a "disability exemption" in the DCMA law makes it legal to remove the DRM because it disables the "reading aloud" feature of Microsoft Reader. However, since this same exemption also states that the disabling has to apply to
all digital formats it's far from clear that this is so if the book is available in formats other than LIT.
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If it is? can we post the Harry Potter stuff here also?
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Absolutely
not. That was produced illegally by criminals and is illegal no matter which way you look at it.
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I guess I am not seeing much of a difference here.
Illegal vs illegal is still illegal I always thought.
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Personally I share your views, David. There are those, however, who find it amusing to use sophistry to try and persuade themselves (I can only think that they are trying to persuade themselves - they certainly aren't persuading anyone else) that they are in some way "taking the moral high ground" in carrying out these acts of dubious (or otherwise) legality.