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The post includes a link to a GitHub repository containing code to circumvent the DRM, which probably counts as "technology" and "component".

semiquaver 1y ago
I covered that in my comment. It’s likely the code violates § 1201 but I doubt the post does. And linking to infringing content is not legally the same thing as publishing it.
- zerocrates 1y ago
  2600 got enjoined from linking to DeCSS and that got upheld on appeal, on the basis that linking violated the DMCA's anti-trafficking provisions. From the district court case: > Defendants then linked their site to those "mirror" sites, after first checking to ensure that the mirror sites in fact were posting DeCSS or something that looked like it, and proclaimed on their own site that DeCSS could be had by clicking on the hyperlinks on defendants' site. By doing so, they offered, provided or otherwise trafficked in DeCSS. The appeal was mostly about whether the DMCA and/or the specific injunction in question violated the First Amendment, and the court found that it didn't. (Universal City Studios vs. Reimerdes at the district court level, Universal City Studios v. Corley at the circuit)
pm2r 1y ago
I think that the link is already gone
chatmasta 1y ago
Where’s the link? Did he remove it, or am I missing some clever obfuscation of his own? (I’m on mobile so maybe the link isn’t obvious.)
- LoganDark 1y ago
  Yes, looks like it's been removed. It used to be at https://github.com/PixelMelt/amazon_book_downloader https://github.com/PixelMelt/amazon_book_downloader
  - chatmasta 1y ago
    Aww that’s disappointing. Fun project.
    - Fnoord 1y ago
      Is this the code? https://github.com/gudvardur/amazon_book_downloader https://github.com/gudvardur/amazon_book_downloader
      - harshreality 1y ago
        Yes. FWIW, as of a few minutes ago when I cloned this one, all the non-git files have the same hashes as the copy of the original I cloned when it was still up. (to clarify, I wasn't talking about any git-specific hashes, just regular sha2/blake2b hashes of python, json, and font files. However, the two sha1 commit hashes in the git history match as well.)
        chatmasta 1y ago
        This is a weird thing with how GitHub forks work. All the objects within a fork network are stored within a global namespace, so you can change the repository name in the URL and find objects that appear to belong to one repository despite being unique to a fork.
        turriblegrapes 1y ago
        These commit sha's do not match the original: 4526863 - Initial commit
        harshreality 1y ago
        Where are you getting that hex prefix from?
        turriblegrapes 1y ago
        Sorry, I don't comment very often and not trolling. I had GitHub open to the repo on my phone and seeing that it had been taken down grabbed a screenshot of the page https://imgur.com/a/IzUA8mP https://imgur.com/a/IzUA8mP

semiquaver 1y ago

I covered that in my comment. It’s likely the code violates § 1201 but I doubt the post does. And linking to infringing content is not legally the same thing as publishing it.

zerocrates 1y ago
2600 got enjoined from linking to DeCSS and that got upheld on appeal, on the basis that linking violated the DMCA's anti-trafficking provisions. From the district court case: > Defendants then linked their site to those "mirror" sites, after first checking to ensure that the mirror sites in fact were posting DeCSS or something that looked like it, and proclaimed on their own site that DeCSS could be had by clicking on the hyperlinks on defendants' site. By doing so, they offered, provided or otherwise trafficked in DeCSS. The appeal was mostly about whether the DMCA and/or the specific injunction in question violated the First Amendment, and the court found that it didn't. (Universal City Studios vs. Reimerdes at the district court level, Universal City Studios v. Corley at the circuit)

pm2r 1y ago

I think that the link is already gone

chatmasta 1y ago

Where’s the link? Did he remove it, or am I missing some clever obfuscation of his own? (I’m on mobile so maybe the link isn’t obvious.)

LoganDark 1y ago
Yes, looks like it's been removed. It used to be at https://github.com/PixelMelt/amazon_book_downloader https://github.com/PixelMelt/amazon_book_downloader
- chatmasta 1y ago
  Aww that’s disappointing. Fun project.
  - Fnoord 1y ago
    Is this the code? https://github.com/gudvardur/amazon_book_downloader https://github.com/gudvardur/amazon_book_downloader
    - harshreality 1y ago
      Yes. FWIW, as of a few minutes ago when I cloned this one, all the non-git files have the same hashes as the copy of the original I cloned when it was still up. (to clarify, I wasn't talking about any git-specific hashes, just regular sha2/blake2b hashes of python, json, and font files. However, the two sha1 commit hashes in the git history match as well.)
      - chatmasta 1y ago
        This is a weird thing with how GitHub forks work. All the objects within a fork network are stored within a global namespace, so you can change the repository name in the URL and find objects that appear to belong to one repository despite being unique to a fork.
      - turriblegrapes 1y ago
        These commit sha's do not match the original: 4526863 - Initial commit
        harshreality 1y ago
        Where are you getting that hex prefix from?
        turriblegrapes 1y ago
        Sorry, I don't comment very often and not trolling. I had GitHub open to the repo on my phone and seeing that it had been taken down grabbed a screenshot of the page https://imgur.com/a/IzUA8mP https://imgur.com/a/IzUA8mP