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Jon is well-known here to be an advocate of the fact that it's legal for everyone to remove DRM from eBooks due to the DMCA exemption. He'll be happy to tell you so himself, so you certainly don't need to take my word for it.
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ie, you (and Jon) are of the opinion that the exemption applies to everyone. Yes, that's what I said .
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"Oh and by the way, you don't have to follow this law." But, I very much doubt that is the case. I have read it and it doesn't read that way at all. Nor do I believe that was the intent. The intent was to make and exception for a person that fit the class and needed the exception. Of course, that is pretty crude to. Because if the disabled person doesn't have the ability to remove the DRM. And no one else that does have the ability fall under the exception... then how is this exception to be used. It's just a stupidly written bad law. BOb |
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erm ... why bring in the argument that the disabled person may not have the 'ability' to remove the DRM.....
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That's my view too, Bob, but none of us here are lawyers and unless and until the thing is actually tested in a court case, all that any of us can offer are personal opinions.
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Maybe. But he wasn't stating that in this conversation. You're the one that pushed it down that path.
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