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Originally Posted by rlauzon
They have the legal right to prevent you from accessing the eBook in the future - because that's what the license said they could do.
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No they don't, at least not in the US. They merely have the practical right to try. If you can get round it, there's nothing they can do as long as you don't resell or distribute the stripped ebook.
These so-called licenses do not deprive you of your fair use rights, no matter what they say.
This really is repetitious, of course, and I don't mean to hijack this thread for yet another session about DRM. But it is important for everyone to stop overstating the situation, and stop ceding the high ground to the corporations who are trying to convince us that we don't own what we have paid for.
Strip 'em if you got 'em!