09-29-2007, 06:00 AM | #91 | |
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That's why no one here posts DRM cracks or explains how to crack MobiPocket or tell where to find the crack. |
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According to this, it is indeed illegal to "circumvent an access control" - ie to remove DRM. |
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09-29-2007, 08:22 AM | #93 | |
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See the EFF page on this topic. Note: AEBPR is "ElcomSoft's Advanced eBook Processor (AEBPR) allegedly removes the technological protection from eBooks that are in Adobe's eBook format and converts them into Adobe's Portable Document Format, so that people can use eBooks in more expanded ways than currently available under the Adobe eBook format." There's also some information on what the DMCA actually says: "The DMCA inserted new anti-circumvention provisions into the Copyright statute. These make it an offense to engage in an act of circumvention of a technical protection (section 1201(a)(1)), to develop and provide tools to others which would allow them to access a technologically protected work (section 1201(a)(2)) and to manufacture, import , provide or traffic in tools that would enable another to circumvent protection to copy a protected work (section 1201(b)(1)(A))." From the EFF. If you'll notice, there's nothing there prohibiting the use of these tools. |
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09-29-2007, 09:06 AM | #94 |
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In another similar but different law (in the USA), it is legal for a minor to purchase an adult magazine such as Playboy. But it is illegal for the shop to sell it to a minor.
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09-29-2007, 09:27 AM | #95 | |
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09-29-2007, 09:41 AM | #96 |
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The various laws were practically designed to be foggy and contradictory between themselves, specifically to allow the authorities "wiggle room" on how they interpret and apply the laws.
Again, this is why people in the U.S. aren't being prosecuted across the board for possessing or even using DRM crackers--becuase they couldn't possibly find them all--but individuals who are singled out, generally by those who have lost money by their specific actions, can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Further, if someone suspected that anyone on this site who's gone on record stating "I broke the DRM on my e-book" was actually selling (or even giving away) that DRM-cracked e-book, and costing someone else money, they could also be dragged before the tribunal and prosecuted (provided proof could be provided by the accuser that their cracked e-books were out on the web, of course). |
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09-29-2007, 04:06 PM | #98 | |
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I think the very worst that could happen would be a cease and desist letter demanding the material be removed. Then someone will get win of it, it will get posted on diggs and slashdoted and then the next thing you know everyone and his cousin would be posting the information all over the net and yelling censorship. This has happened a few time and the AACS encryption key controversy is a good example. So I wouldn't worry. Unless this site starts to make copyrighted book available for download, nothing will happen. |
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10-03-2007, 10:09 AM | #99 |
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Actually, an organization could unilaterally go to the MobileRead ISP without informing MobileRead, inform them that MobileRead is disseminating illegal material, and demand it be taken down immediately. Many ISPs will comply instantly, even without proof or due process being served, in order to avoid being involved in the legal hassles. This has happened in the past in the U.S., and the laws essentially condone it.
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While it's condoned, it's not legal. We are allowed our right to due process and they have to have proof that we've done something wrong.
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10-11-2007, 03:44 PM | #101 |
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I don't think that due process applies when it's not the government taking the action ....
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But, if you get your site shut down because of this and then it's decided that you did not really do anything illegal, can't you then take the two companies to court for damages and whatnot?
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10-11-2007, 04:20 PM | #105 | |
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Many times the folks who are the targets of this sort of action comply because they lack the resources to successfully fight it. ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 10-11-2007 at 10:15 PM. |
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