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First off, when it comes to ebooks/mp3s, how is a user supposed to tell the difference between an official free copy and a stolen copy? I have like 25 drm free ebooks from TOR that they gave away. Once a publisher gives a non-drm file away, does that automatically remove their right to prosecute for illegal copies? I'm sure this happens all the time with mp3's as well.
Second, the act of removing DRM is illegal, not the act of making a backup. Can't we just write programs that piggy back onto legitimate readers and either pull the text from memory or do a high speed OCR of the actual pages?
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