I just purchased a book collection from itunes with gift cards. ha good idea right? no. The .epub files contain DRM so I can not open the ebook on the software i want to read my ebook with....Any ideas on how to remove the DRM or is that illegal and I have to suck it up and use a ireader of some sort.

Also, it's pretty lame that iTunes doesn't let you read ebooks on your computer.

mmmm in this case I guess a pirated copy would be ok since I have bought it. Re-buying it just seems like buying the same book twice because some of the pages are stuck together. Still though I wish Itunes would allow returns >->

Jailbreaking is approved by the Library of Congress so shouldn't it be allowed to be linked on this forum?

Amazon Kindle yo.

Still has DRM, even if it isn't quite as onerous.

You bought it, do whatever you want with it. The law should serve society, not some big corporation.

big corporation ... still only get one vote per person.

U.S. companies pressuring U.S. government to pressure Canadian government?

In a leaked letter sent to Spain?s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment for not passing a SOPA-style file-sharing site blocking law, Spain risked being put on a United States trade blacklist . Inclusion would have left Spain open to a range of ?retaliatory options? but already the US was working with the incoming government to reach its goals.

[the newly elected Spanish government] quickly responded and fully implemented the legislation within 10 days of taking office.

I don't think that US can blacklist Canada though, because of NAFTA, and the fact that we rely on each other so heavily.

To expect the united states government to do things with make sense and aren't at best retarded seems like poor planning at this point.

By making it illegal to circumvent security, it makes it a lot easier to find and incriminate people who distribute illegal copies of games/music/books.

What is wrong with copying a book to another device that is also owned by you? I can understand that it is illegal to let someone else copy the material (as that would be copyright infringement), but then, what if I upgraded or replaced my eReader, computer etc. but I still own the book? Do I not have the right to read it? Un-DRM-ing a book is not going to affect the companies' profits is it? And what makes you think a person that paid for the book is going to upload it to the Web and let other people download the material? If I paid for something, why should I give it away to everyone for free? Is the buyer going to be that stupid? The companies are probably BS-ing after all, they do not use logic.

My experience has been that DRM nearly always sucks for the legitimate purchaser, but has little-to-no detrimental effect on the pirate. There have been more than a few instances recently where the pirated, DRM-free media was the only working version.

Speeding doesn't carry criminal charges in Ontario, no matter how fast you're going (although the police can suspend your license immediately if you're above +50km/h). Just fines and demerit points (which build up to suspension of license). So no, people who are speeding are not criminals, even though speeding is illegal. Other jurisdictions are probably similar.

RIAA sent a DMCA notice to Penn State ... nearly forcing the department's servers offline during exam period.

RIAA had mistakenly identified the combination of the word "Usher" (identifying faculty member Peter Usher) in conjunction with an a cappella song performed by astronomers about gamma rays as an instance of infringement.

RIAA admitted that it does not routinely require its "Internet copyright enforcers" to listen to the song that is allegedly infringing.

...your car is impounded for 7 days. Once in court you face a minimum fine of $2000 (up to $10000) *and* 6 demerit points (2 short of the number where you license gets suspended anyway) *and* a possible 30 day license suspension *and* up to 6 months in jail. Now, whether or not that counts as criminal I am not entirely sure (I don't feel like re-reading the law); but it's certainly not "just fines and demerit points". oh, and if your outside a small town far away from anyone who can pick you up and with no means of getting to your destination when you do get stopped... congrats! You're also stuck in the middle of no where!

...Canada had Japanese concentration camps, and when the people were released, they did not get their goods back, and or reimbursement for them.

...how does a single corporation through corporation persondhood become more powerful then the public.

Basically what your proposing is communism

Removing DRM is not explicitly illegal, as there is no law or previous court decision that states such an act is illegal. Stop saying it is illegal.

[DMCA] criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself.

The district court concluded that RealNetworks violated the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the DMCA when the DVD copying software RealDVD bypasses the copy protection technologies of DVD.

TPMs, sometimes referred to as ?digital locks,? are technological measures that allow copyright owners to restrict access to and/or use of copyright-protected expression. Bill C-32 makes it an offence to circumvent a TPM which controls access to a work, a performer?s performance fixed in a sound recording, or a sound recording. It also makes it an offence to offer or provide services or devices to the public that are ?primarily for the purposes of circumventing a technological protection measure? (provided that certain other criteria are satisfied).

I thought that since this was a forum for Canadian students, then it would be Canadian laws that would be relevant. And, as of yet, breaking DRM is not illegal.

why should we care after all?

Wikileaks has released dozens of new U.S. cables that demonstrate years of behind the scenes lobbying by U.S. government officials to pressure Canada into implementing a Canadian DMCA. The cables include confirmation that Prime Minister Harper personally promised U.S. President George Bush at the SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec in 2008 that Canada would pass copyright legislation, U.S. government lines on copyright reform that include explicit support for DMCA-style digital lock rules, and the repeated use of the Special 301 process to "embarrass" Canada into action. In fact, cables even reveal Canadian officials encouraging the U.S. to maintain the pressure and disclosing confidential information.

The reports identify trade barriers to US companies and products due to the intellectual property laws, such as copyright, patents and trademarks, in other countries. Each year the USTR must identify countries which do not provide "adequate and effective" protection of intellectual property rights or "fair and equitable market access to United States persons that rely upon intellectual property rights".

Of course, my rationale could be the conspiracy theorist in me, but I doubt it as I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist when it comes to anything else.

it should result in an equal mix of culture among two countries.

we can conclude that B would not actively seek out a different culture as that would cause change.

The only thing that sets our 2 cultures apart are the different cultures that settled here after initial european settlement