Amazon To Let Libraries Lend Kindle Books 135
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CmdrTaco
from the i-won't-give-it-back dept.
from the i-won't-give-it-back dept.
Last month we reported that Amazon was confronting lenders of Kindle e-books. Today,
thebian writes "Amazon announced yesterday that it would allow 11,000 libraries in the US to lend ebooks. The press release doesn't say exactly when this will start. Amazon is trying to speed the adoption of the Kindles. If people are slow to flock to the device the reason is the high prices the publishers cling to. Amazon itself sometimes undercuts Kindle prices, and almost always some booksellers on the Amazon Marketplace undercut the Kindle. There's no indication about what books might be offered through this program."
Re:Better hurry before the horse leaves the barn (Score:2, Informative)
FYI : calibre has nothing to do with DRM, it's an external script that removes DRM.
Re:Better hurry before the horse leaves the barn (Score:4, Informative)
Bullshit:
MGE UPS Systems v. GE Consumer Industrial
"Merely bypassing a technological protection that restricts a user from viewing or using a work is insufficient to trigger the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. The DMCA prohibits only forms of access that would violate or impinge on the protections that the Copyright Act otherwise affords copyright owners."
If you stripped the book's DRM then SOLD IT, you will get nailed. Bypassing DRM to use the work is (currently) legal.