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by streetfighter64 5 days ago
> Why would DRM on a digital copy of a book matter?

Because DRM is just a way to make "breaking copyright" more practically cumbersome. What's easier, breaking digital DRM for each and every E-book you find, or just establishing a single pipeline for scanning physical books?
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sidewndr46 5 days ago
breaking DRM is so easy my generation was doing it as kids, there is no technical obstacle there.
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TeMPOraL 5 days ago
It's a manual process.

More importantly, it's also explicitly illegal. Destructive format-shifting is not. Thank copyright laws.

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eru 4 days ago
Why would it be a manual pass? There's only so many DRM schemes, and you can even use your previous generation AI to help with the breaking.

> More importantly, it's also explicitly illegal.

Agreed!

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streetfighter64 2 days ago
Again, what's more technically feasible? Setting up a DRM-cracking LLM and manually verifying that it's actually succeeded for each and every DRM scheme you encounter, or just throwing the books in a regular old office scanner and being sure it works without even checking...
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