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Originally Posted by Doug Pardee
To be pedantic—one of my favorite activities—there's no "borderline" legality about it in the US. In the US, circumventing DRM from e-books is illegal, even for personal use. ...
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Not only is this not true, there is no case law to support your position. There has never been a single case brought before US courts against an individual for removing content from otherwise legally purchased material (e-books or otherwise). The Sklyarov case was about the creation of circumvention tools, and he won the case. Constitutional and jurisdictional issues aside, this is because the DMCA has specific clauses allowing the reverse engineering of electronic controls for the sake of interoperability. It is perfectly legal to remove DRM on your content, although many content providers would have you believe otherwise.
- Ed