dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoAmazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Booksgoodereader.comexternal-linkmessage-square227fedilinkarrow-up1469arrow-down110
arrow-up1459arrow-down1external-linkAmazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Booksgoodereader.comdantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square227fedilink
minus-squaretomkatt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours 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-squaredermanus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour 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.
You didn’t circumvent it by breaking the encryption, but I’d say you still circumvented it.