• tomkatt@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    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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      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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        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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          6 days ago

          If you scroll down a bit, I actually already answered that question in this exact threat, one reply down.

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      7 days ago

      You didn’t circumvent it by breaking the encryption, but I’d say you still circumvented it.