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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barasawa" data-source="post: 7724524" data-attributes="member: 44909">Haven't heard anything in that mentioned about adding functionality, but as you don't share your own personal copy with anyone, I did mention that, I'd guess it's a moot point. After all, adding bookmarks or hyperlinks in it would be like writing notes, putting in page markers, and postit notes/tags in a book, so I'd think it would fall under fair use. Again, as I stated, you still can't share it with anyone. The articles I read on it when that decision was made, didn't say anything about how YOU obtained the file. Just the legality of owning it, and that you were allowed to obtain it, even if someone else made it. The court recognized that many people that would need or use this ability, don't have the ability to do so themselves. Of course, there apparently wasn't anything to protect the person making it for you, so they are still liable for distributing, and if DRM had to be broken, something books don't have, they were up the creek for that as well.  I agree about the legal advice thing. I wouldn't go so far as to call this legal advice as ianal. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  On the other hand, I have been reading the news on lots of things related to this since they've started that nightmare of the DMCA.  By the way, the copyright industry speads a lot of flat out lies and halftruths over what actually is legal or not, so a lot of people have been bamboozled by them. Of course, even if you do something totally legal, it doesn't stop them from throwing frivolous lawsuits at you until you crumble. Watched a case where Sony sued a software company for the exact same thing 4 or 5 times in a row, losing every single time. When they filed that last lawsuit, the guys just had to finally give up, they had no money left to mount a defense. Sony got what it wanted because our system is screwed up even though they were wrong. It happens.</blockquote>

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