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Originally Posted by Ankh
Sigh... They have exclusive rights to the content. They can, pretty much, do whatever they please with that content, including, but not limited to, infecting it with DRM before offering it for sale.
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They don't have exclusive rights to public domain works.
And it's possible someone could freely offer DRM cracking software with the stated intention of *only* having it used to remove DRM from public domain content, which is not protected by the DMCA. No copyrighted material = no copyright violation; no rights to digitally manage. As more and more ebookstores put DRM on public-domain content, this becomes more legally viable.