Why would it be a manual pass? There's only so many DRM schemes, and you can even use your previous generation AI to help with the breaking.

> More importantly, it's also explicitly illegal.

Agreed!

Again, what's more technically feasible? Setting up a DRM-cracking LLM and manually verifying that it's actually succeeded for each and every DRM scheme you encounter, or just throwing the books in a regular old office scanner and being sure it works without even checking...