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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Please stop saying that removing DRM is illegal.
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What is illegal is sharing copyrighted material over the internet. It is only a matter of time before someone gets hit by a lawsuit for posting ebooks, or, given the way some sharing software works, downloading ebooks from the darknet. This isn't a DRM issue, in the sense that this has always been banned by copyright. However, the copyright owner is on much stronger ground if they have released an ebook version and it is this version that is available on the darknet. One federal judge has said that the lack of an ebook version might be a defense to darknet downloads (of a scanned version from a physical book).