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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Please stop saying that stripping DRM from eBooks is illegal in the USA. It's not legal or illegal yet. It is a gray area at present.
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Fact: You agreed to a abide by a license as a condition for getting an eBook. By stripping the DRM off, you have violated that license.
That is illegal. What remains to be seen is what the publishers are going to do about it.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What we do not know is if fair use trumps the DMCA or does the DMCA trump fair use? Until there is a definitive legal ruling, we just won't know the legality.
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Since what you purchased as a license, not an eBook, there is no Fair Use argument here.