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Originally Posted by rlauzon
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.
Since what you purchased as a license, not an eBook, there is no Fair Use argument here.
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This makes little sense. When I go to a bookstore site and purchase an e-book, I don't even get a pro forma agreement to check off as "accepted," spelling out any terms. All I get is the book file.
It's pretty hard to argue that I've entered into a contractual agreement when the terms of the contract are hidden from me. Plus no one asks my age at a book site--suppose the book buyer is a minor who can't legally enter into a contract?
Distributing the material is entirely different. There I would be guilty of copyright infringement.