Thread: Where is the stripping of DRM legal?
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Old 04-20-2009, 10:44 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by duckbill View Post
Background: When possible I prefer to buy titles in a format from which I can remove the DRM as I find the formatting very poor on a PRS-505. I then reformat and publish in LRF to retain full justification using the excellent Caibre.

I was wondering whether such a practice is legal in the UK, Germany and New Zealand (ie I am from the UK, posted in Germany and emigrating to NZ)?

I would not bother with the whole process if the 505 could display justified text.
Stripping DRM is not legal in the UK. I do not know about NZ.

As for the 505 and justified text, BBeB (LRF/LRX) does display with justified text. It is currently ePub that does not. We need Sony & Adobe to update ADE to support justified text.
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