On 03/22/2011 01:49 PM, a@aboq.org wrote:
I'm a trained and certified linguist, Marcello, having graduated in linguistics. It's likely I can read better than most folks, and perhaps *that's* the issue here.
"Use your little grey cells, mon cher Hastings!" I found here for you (30 seconds spent on the "DRM" article on wikipedia) a commentary on the German law (finding the Slovak law is left as an exercise for your cells):
However, there is no "right to hack," where a user wants to benefit from the limitations to copyright. It is thus not allowed to circumvent the measure, even if the circumvention is done solely for e.g. private copying or citing the protected content. Only with regard to some "first class" limitations is the right holder obliged to make available to the user necessary means to benefit from the limitation without circumventing the technological measure (infra, 5).
So that even if you fall into one of the "exempt" categories (eg. visual disability) you have no right to circumvent the DRM yourself, instead the "right holder" is obliged to provide a "usable" copy for you. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org