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Originally Posted by edembowski
Not only is this not true, there is no case law to support your position.
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I'd like to back up this statement, although I don't remember all the specifics (it's been a while). I think the simple version of the current situation is: legal to strip DRM from content to you own, illegal to distribute the tools to allow you to do this.
The Skylarov case is interesting, however, in that a jury found that merely distributing the tools was not considered a "willful" infringement (meaning that the Russian employees did not intend to violate U. S. law). Whether or not this finding would help a U. S. citizen, I am not entirely sure (especially when a jury is involved). However, the next ebook mega-strip package (that removes DRM from all five (at least!) major formats) will likely include watermarks in the resultant book, hopefully clarifying that the community developing those tools have no intention of distributing the result.