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Originally Posted by edembowski
I often shop at Barnes & Noble for my ebooks. I have a sony reader, so whenever I get a book, I decrypt it and push it down to my reader. At no rime was I ever presented with any statement regarding DRM removal. I went ahead and opened the license for the Nook app on the PC, and found a very interesting paragraph:
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B&N has a curious site don't they. I just took a quick look and found this:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/legal/
which says: "3. Prohibited Conduct. In your use of your nook or the Service, you may not: (i) transfer the Digital Content from one electronic reading device to another without maintaining the applicable digital rights management solution for that Digital Content;"
Exactly how you are supposed to get to this useful information if you are buying books for a device other than the nook I am not sure. (Note that the clause says it covers the "Service" as well as the nook device but the leading paragraphs of the agreement say it is just for the nook ereader - so I cannot claim this covers your specific situation.)
I hope that, despite your assertion, I never actually said that every bookseller has such clauses - it's be a pretty silly thing to say, as there are some very proud of their DRM-free status right here on these forums - but anyone with the knowledge of how to remove DRM must certainly be aware of the possibility of such clauses. I mean, did you really think DRM was added just to give you something to do when you downloaded the file? I guess there may be occasions when DRM is added "because that's how we do things here", but I would guess the usual case, when DRM is added, is that they don't actually want it removed.