dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoAmazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Booksgoodereader.comexternal-linkmessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up1511arrow-down19
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minus-squaretomkatt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoTo be fair, if you OCR the pages via camera, you haven’t actually circumvented DRM. That means it’s a completely legal backup, as the DRM on the original file was untouched and unaltered. This definitely does fall under fair use.
minus-squareysjet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoTheoretically, yes. Realistically, judges historically believe anything prosecutors tell them about hacking and circumvention. There’s been people thrown in jail for the rest of their life for the crime of clicking a public URL that the company didn’t intend to be public.
minus-squaredermanus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoYou didn’t circumvent it by breaking the encryption, but I’d say you still circumvented it.
To be fair, if you OCR the pages via camera, you haven’t actually circumvented DRM. That means it’s a completely legal backup, as the DRM on the original file was untouched and unaltered. This definitely does fall under fair use.
Theoretically, yes. Realistically, judges historically believe anything prosecutors tell them about hacking and circumvention.
There’s been people thrown in jail for the rest of their life for the crime of clicking a public URL that the company didn’t intend to be public.
You didn’t circumvent it by breaking the encryption, but I’d say you still circumvented it.