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Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books (goodereader.com)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

    Source?
    The closest i've heard was a journalist being accused of hacking for the crime of choosing "view source" in the right-click menu of a web-browser.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In general I agree, but I am going to have to ask you for a source on that last one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Looks like I mixed up two different cases- the cause of one, and the duration of another.

    weev (who apparently is a giant asshole) was the one who got sent to jail for accessing a completely public URL AT&T wished he didn't in 2010. The EFF took up his case. His sentence was later vacated by another court because so many civil rights lawyers kept joining his team pro-bono so the court tossed it out on a blatant technicality to get the issue to go away, so he only served ~2y.

    As for the CFAA being used to slap people with life sentences, there's too many examples to know which one I was mixing it up with. Aaron Swartz is the classic example.

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