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It SEEMS to exclusively exploit the analog hole, but I'm sure that if it went to the right judge this would fall apart.

• andrewaylett 13y ago
  Do you think you'd get away with photocopying and scanning a paper book? It probably doesn't violate laws against circumventing DRM, but using it is still potentially copyright infringement. What it does do that might be useful is legitimately strip DRM from files that aren't protected by copyright or for purposes which are allowed by copyright, where you might otherwise be in trouble for breaking DRM.
  • jrockway 13y ago
    Do you think you'd get away with photocopying and scanning a paper book? For personal use? Absolutely.
    • brechin 13y ago
      Just because you can get away with it doesn't mean it's not illegal. After all, do you think you'd get away with stripping DRM from your own e-books for personal use? Probably.
    • kleiba 13y ago
      Sending a copy to a web server is possibly not covered under personal use, but that depends on the country I guess. But of course he could simply run the OCR locally on his computer instead.
  • nwh 13y ago
    Same setup used to circumvent US encryption exportation laws. Tens of thousands of pages of code, printed and scanned from books.