I would assume so. Your intent would be to extract the text and images for your own use - minus the usage control of DRM - and the US laws are so vague about this that such an action could be construed as 'breaking' the DRM and 'stealing' the intellectual content.
And it's danged hard to 'prove' you had no intention of selling or giving away the 'broken' content, said burden of proof being on your shoulders these days.
Derek
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Originally Posted by slayda
I have a, perhaps, syntax question on the "breaking" of DRM. I would assume that some software, that you could run that would read a DRMed ebook in and output some form of non-DRMed text/graphics, is definitely "breaking" DRM.
My question is, "Would using a legally purchased and registered on-screen reader of the DRMed ebook and an on-screen capture that was then put through OCR be technically considered as "breaking" DRM?" Or is that just nit picking legalese?
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