2009/9/5 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
Ok, so it would be publisher or author, then.
And how are they going to find out about it?
The same way file sharers get caught when they share lots of music and films? It is not likely that anyone would "steal" enough books in this manner to make for a worthwhile case in itself, but they might choose to sue anyway in an attempt to intimidate others out of acting similarly.
Yes people get sued for bypassing DRM (*), but not many.
(*) Maybe. Has anyone been successfully sued for merely *bypassing* DRM, and not trafficking in DRM bypassing devices? The very short list of DRM cases I know of are all trafficking cases.
You may be right, I haven't researched it in detail.