[Blindtlk] Fwd: Announcing CHM2TXT

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

The ruling and background can be found at
  http://www.copyright.gov/1201/


Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 2:16 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Fwd: Announcing CHM2TXT
> 
> There are also HTML converters for CHM files, and at least one
> crudely-named program for handling Microsoft's LIT file format, with DRM
> decryption if you have the original keys.  (This may not be entirely legal
> to do under the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.  I say may
> be because there is supposed to be an exception in the law for
> circumvention devices that provide us with access to material in an
> accessible format.  The last individual who attempted to use that defense
> was a Russian here for a conference named Dmitri...
> 
> Several people, myself among them, routinely remove DRM from media we have
> paid for as an act of civil disobedience.  Companies will continue to
> foist this crap upon us as long as we continue to accept it.  I .. don't.
> I'd be happy to provide links to CHM and LIT tools, though decrypting the
> latter should be done at your own risk.  (I'd advise against sharing the
> decrypted results--that's definitely not legal and LIT files are sometimes
> "watermarked" digitally, which means it can be traced back to you..)
> 
> If anyone's interested, let me know.  I'll look for the tools for Windows,
> and if they're not available, I'll see if I can build them in the next
> week or two.
>