Harmon's thoughts on DRM stripping for home use is that it's legal, and distribution of DRM-removal tech should be legal if the distributor makes it clear that it's only to be used for legal purposes. Harmon's an IP lawyer.
DRM: What did you buy? thread (from which both of those quotes are drawn); at 9 pages, this is one of the smaller DRM discussions at Mobileread. Note that many people chiming in aren't from the US, and their laws about what is-or-is-not legal regarding DRM removal can be drastically different.
The DMCA says that circumventing copy-protection is illegal, period, and so is distributing the code that does so. The DMCA *also* says that it doesn't apply to fair use rights. (IANAL. Don't rely on my interp.)
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Xenophon explains the legal advice he got, which explains some of the tangle of rights.
Harmon's thoughts on DRM stripping for home use is that it's legal, and distribution of DRM-removal tech should be legal if the distributor makes it clear that it's only to be used for legal purposes. Harmon's an IP lawyer.
DRM: What did you buy? thread (from which both of those quotes are drawn); at 9 pages, this is one of the smaller DRM discussions at Mobileread. Note that many people chiming in aren't from the US, and their laws about what is-or-is-not legal regarding DRM removal can be drastically different.
The DMCA says that circumventing copy-protection is illegal, period, and so is distributing the code that does so. The DMCA *also* says that it doesn't apply to fair use rights. (IANAL. Don't rely on my interp.)