e-books and blind in UnitedStates of America

[Travis Siegel]

Woo, do you have a pointer to this info.  I'd love to point this out  
to some of the more ardent drm supporters who frequent the darker  
boards on digital rights these days.
I already (as a matter of course) remove copy protection on books I  
buy, but it'd sure be nice to be able to sink some claws into a few  
emails I send requesting non-drm versions of some books.  If it's   
allowed for us to break  them anyway, it'd be easier for us all  
around if they'd just give them to us drm free in the first place.   
This would go miles towards making that argument for me.


On Jun 17, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Blind citizens of the United States of America in the United States of
> America have been granted a D.M.C.A. exemption by the Librarian Of
> Congress which permits us to use whatever encryption cracking  
> software we
> can use to crack the codes on D.M.C.A. protected e-books.  Security
> professionals are another class of people with this exemption provided
> they perform the cracking to test vulnerabilities in those  
> systems.  Our
> exemption was granted to help us with access to the contents of those
> e-books.
>
>
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