e-books and blind in UnitedStates of America

[John covici]

How would one get such tools?

Thanks.

on Sunday 06/17/2007 Travis Siegel(tsiegel at softcon.com) wrote
 > 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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