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BooXtream EPub Watermark Remover

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Re: BooXtream EPub Watermark Remover

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Would this not qualify as "producing and disseminating technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent" DRM? Because that's a crime under the DMCA. But I'm just askin', you know?

> Because that's a crime under the DMCA.

It's a crime in the U.S., it's not a crime in my country. But this guy has listed American University's email address, so I would definitely remove this software if I were him.

In fact, if I were him, I would find someone not from the U.S. to host the repository, make it private, give him the read/write privileges and then occasionally push the changes to a new public repo (so that the .git folder is different and one could not track the changes as they happen).

But that's just me...

Re: BooXtream EPub Watermark Remover

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Would this not qualify as "producing and disseminating technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent" DRM? Because that's a crime under the DMCA. But I'm just askin', you know?

> Because that's a crime under the DMCA. It's a crime in the U.S., it's not a crime in my country. But this guy has listed American University's email address, so I would definitely remove this software if I were him. In fact, if I were him, I would find someone not from the U.S. to host the repository, make it private, give him the read/write privileges and then occasionally push the changes to a new public repo (so…

Or host it on a Tor hidden service!

Re: BooXtream EPub Watermark Remover

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Because that's a crime under the DMCA. It's a crime in the U.S., it's not a crime in my country. But this guy has listed American University's email address, so I would definitely remove this software if I were him. In fact, if I were him, I would find someone not from the U.S. to host the repository, make it private, give him the read/write privileges and then occasionally push the changes to a new public repo (so…

Or host it on a Tor hidden service!

A tor-ified github clone would be interesting. You'd probably see a lot of cool pro-freedom software projects that are illegal in their originating country, like this one.

Re: BooXtream EPub Watermark Remover

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or host it on a Tor hidden service!

A tor-ified github clone would be interesting. You'd probably see a lot of cool pro-freedom software projects that are illegal in their originating country, like this one.

A bunch of version control'd child porn is what I'd be scared of.

Re: BooXtream EPub Watermark Remover

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Every day I see submissions here that are cracks, keygens, etc., and they always get flagged and killed.

I'm not familiar with BooXtream, specifically, but I'm curious what it is about this that is different? This is for DRM, sure, but it seems very similar to me.

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