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Originally Posted by flandroid
Recent court decisions in the US have actually ruled in favour of the consumer and categorised as 'fair use' the stripping of DRM for the purpose of crossing platforms (ie: stripping dongle code to install software on machines for which the dongles don't work, ripping DVDs to netbooks without optical drives for travel, &c). It is very, very unlikely that you'd see any kind of conviction if you were 'caught' stripping DRM from books you bought from the Kobo store so you could transfer them to your Kindle. You might be in breach of the user agreement for the device, and maybe ( maybe) Amazon or Kobo would kill your existing accounts, but a judge would probably find that the material has been paid for and no harm was done.
As for the regional market issue, isn't solely a result of protectionism, nor is it petty. Morris Rosenthal has a couple of interesting blog posts from a few years ago here and here that, while written from a self-publishing perspective, might shed some light on the international publishing landscape, rights-wise. |
Oh, I hadn't read that, but since I've never never worried about it before I don't really pay attention to the Copyright laws as I've never done anything but buy non DRM and put it on my Kobo after converting.