On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/9/5 WJhonson@aol.com:
In a message dated 9/5/2009 2:37:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, thomas.dalton@gmail.com writes:
Either Google or the publisher/author of the book you viewed. People get sued for bypassing DRM, why couldn't they be sued for bypassing restrictions on Google books?>>
Google suffers no damage from people in Namibia viewing a book through a proxy.
Ok, so it would be publisher or author, then.
And how are they going to find out about it?
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.