> I've never heard of a DMCA case prosecuted against someone who photocopied the screen of a ebook reader. In practical terms, the DMCA doesn't result in prose

> I've never heard of a DMCA case prosecuted against someone who photocopied the screen of a ebook reader. In practical terms, the DMCA doesn't result in prosecutions of people who break DRM for personal use. It results in the prosecution of people who produce/distribute software that breaks DRM to allow consumers to copy media for personal use, because there is no practical way to find people who are breaking DRM for personal purposes. I can't speak as to photocopying the screen of an ebook reader since that has never happened (to my knowledge), but here's a similar case: Blu-ray discs are encrypted with AACS[0]. If someone were to make a program that, in real time, takes screencaps of a movie being played back by a legal Blu-ray disc player and records the audio output from the player, then recombines that fully unencrypted data into a video file also without DRM, that person would most definitely get hit with a lawsuit on the basis of the DMCA. 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Content_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Content_System