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Old 11-24-2010, 11:26 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by rlauzon View Post
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.
Not so... The site says BUY so I buy. It does not say rent or borrow. So if I am buying, then I am owning. If I am owning then I can strip the DRM since I own the eBook.

But as was said before, in some cases it is legal (no gray area) for the DRM to be stripped. But the issue is that nobody has challenged if the DMCA has killed fair use or not. So there is no way we can say DRM stripping is illegal and be sure we are correct.
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