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> I know it would be wildly popular in places like Utah because I fear legal pursuit from authors/publishers (and since you must break DRM in order for the tech to work, I don't see a way out).

FWIW, congress wrote an exemption to the Copyright Act when a company wanted to do this for movies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_and_Cop...

So if your product was actually popular enough in Utah that might happen again. Of course that was 13 years ago.




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