DMCA 1201 provides for a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine…and that’s just for a first offense.
The people who create and share DRM-breaking tools don’t care about violating the law, but audiobook stores who’d like to compete with Amazon’s monopoly do, mostly because Amazon knows where to find them, and can ask the US government to charge them with felonies if they make DRM-breaking tools. In practice, DRM technologies are always broken, swiftly and comprehensively, and any dishonest person who wishes to bypass the DRM can easily find out how to do so with just a few quick searches.ĭRM doesn’t slow down criminals, but it stops law abiding competitors dead in their tracks.
DRM is sold to publishers and authors as a tool to prevent copyright infringement: they’re promised that DRM is a technology that somehow makes it impossible for their customers to copy and share their creative works.
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