noDRM's GitHub repo DeDRM_tools is disabled due to Readium's DMCA notice

Post by EMIRELADERO » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 6:33 AM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #45

Good. Like it or not, anticircumvention measures are black-letter law in much of the world. In the USA, producing or distributing software designed to circumvent DRM can subject you to civil and criminal penalties. According to 17 U.S.C. section 512, it is not necessary for the material itself to be infringing in order for a DMCA notice to be valid. If "an activity using the material" is infringing, the material must…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 6:56 AM UTC

tadfisher wrote: post #11

Damn. I rely on this software to read ebooks on my Remarkable tablet. I do this because I like giving at least a few pennies of royalty percentage to the author, and as far as I understand it, it's legal on my end to circumvent DRM for the sole purpose of interoperability for my legally-purchased content. Of course, if they really don't want my money, there's always libgen.

Post by roastedpeacock » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 7:03 AM UTC

perihelions wrote: post #79

schoen wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, there are cases in which courts said approximately that implementing an algorithm (especially an algorithm that is a secret¹) without permission can be a violation of §1201. Recall (a)(3)(A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authorit…

What happens if you print out the source code and publish it as a book? Can the courts prohibit a book? Phil Zimmermann asked this question in the context of export controls on "cryptography technology", i.e. the PGP software. MIT Press published the source code in 1995. But the US dropped its objections and this wasn't specifically tested in court (AFAIK, though similar questions were). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Post by stjohnswarts » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 7:15 AM UTC

ashtonkem wrote: post #76

DarkmSparks wrote: post #33

Personally I'm actually of the opinion that people should just forget about working around DRM preventing legal access to content and just forget about DRM encumbered content altogether. Having work arounds adds value to otherwise worthless file formats. Dont support it, dont recommend it. dont even talk about it other than to say "meh, DRM'd you couldnt pay me enough to use it". Quite an extreme stance I know, but t…

Generally I find that recommending individual, uncoordinated action as a solution to a system issue to be generally unsuccessful. Something like this either needs a coordinated response like a boycott, or a political solution.

Post by mikevm » Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 7:17 AM UTC