Forum - View topicNEWS: 2 Arrested for Allegedly Making E-Book Copying Software
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v1cious
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Wow, so now you can get arrested for merely making the software?
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Spotlesseden
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Always like this in many countries If your software does nothing, but illegal activities. They also arrested people for making malicious software and hacking software. You still have to prove their intention in court. Sony also won suit in Australian against people selling hacking hardware because Sony proved that they used PS3 code in those hardware. http://www.dashhacks.com/ps3/ps3-hacks/sony-vs-australian-ps-jailbreak-resellers-sony-wins.html |
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dan9999
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Aha. |
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Ushio
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You mean like VHS was compared to the Boston strangler because it could only be used to record TV shows which the studios insisted was copyright infringement. |
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EnigmaticSky
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To me it sounds like they made a program that removes DRM protection from the e-books... Maybe I just am not comprehending this correctly, but that doesn't sound illegal.
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mgosdin
 Posts: 1302 Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA |
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It would violate the DMCA in the US ( Of course breathing, eating or thinking may do the same from what I can tell. ) and it would be safe to assume that Japanese law works in a similar fashion. In truth the crime was not writing the software so much as it was selling it for a profit. If it had been written by a couple of coders living in a low rent apartment over a Yokohama bar, and posted on the internet for free, then likely the authorities would have shrugged it off or slow walked it as a low priority investigation. This appears to have been a part of a full blown commercial enterprise. Mark Gosdin |
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vanfanel
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In the US, circumventing copy protection has been made illegal, so surely making and selling software for that express purpose wouldn't be allowed either. In any case, it's what Japanese law says, not anyone else's, that matters here. What I find amazing is that this was available from a company and not some random video pirate. Did nobody check first to make sure this was legally in the clear? |
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Lucy_Nyuu
Posts: 61 Location: 藤沢市 |
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http://www.amazon.co.jp/株式会社ウェブエクストリーム-コミスケ3/dp/B00C1XCY44
Look at the reviews for the software. It didn't even work, atleast not anymore. All it ever did was taking screencaps of every page and creating a pdf out of those. The third review even explains how to do the basicly same thing with free software. That shady company deserved it. |
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