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Backward West II: Guilty by Suspicion
Consumers set to do battle over digital copyrights
Book reviewers at Blogcritics.org try to give readers a sense of an author's style by quoting a brief passage. Music reviewers will soon offer sound snippets. But for DVD movies and bonus material, site editor Eric Olsen says he's out of luck.
The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act bars Olsen and others from overriding copy-protection measures used on DVDs, even for commentary and other legally permitted ``fair uses.''
Researchers complain that the law inhibits their ability to fully study encryption and computer security. Preservationists say they can't make archival copies. Educators say they can't incorporate digital clips into presentations.
Copyright holders say the law is working as designed and has made them more willing to release e-books, movies on DVDs and software over the Internet.
Fritz Attaway, executive vice president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said nothing would stop Olsen from including clips -- if he were willing to accept a degradation in quality. ''All you have to do is take a video camera and take a screen shot of it,'' Attaway said.
Pocket PC eBooks: Comparing to the DVD situation which Olsen took short video clip; In the case of DRM5 ebook: honest buyer are not allowed to do "copy text" from the ebook pages, the DMCA suggest us to dictate and type again the word by ourselves, rather than using the widely available "DRM5 cracked" to downconvert the lit ebooks.

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