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Originally Posted by crich70
It reminds me of the fight the movie people put up when home VCR's came out in the late 70's. They wanted it made illegal to tape movies off of television. As I recall they failed in that aim. Hopefully the lawers for book publishers will fail to block the legalization of removing DRM from books as well.
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And it took a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling (the Betamax decision). The iPod didn't come out until after another SCOTUS ruling (The Macromedia decision) allowed it's legality.