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Originally Posted by Barty
By removing the DRM, you now have a copy of the book unconnected to the copy bought by the library (not you). If it's not copying, then what do you call it?
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If I copy something, I would have TWO of the item, right? The original, and the copy.
Removing the DRM does not create a copy, it just creates a non-DRM'd file...there still is only one "book"...basically it's like renaming a file...there is still only one file, it just has a different name.
But even if stripping the DRM did make a 2nd copy (maybe it does, I don't know, never tried it), as long as I don't keep the non-DRM file/book longer than the period my library would allow me to keep it, there is ZERO harm...and I think someone earlier in the thread said that the non-drm version of the file automatically deletes it self just like the DRM file?.
As long as I:
1) Don't distribute it.
2) Don't sell it.
3) Don't keep it past the normal library due date, then...
There is no harm. None. Zero.
Yes, technically I would have broken the law, but morally, I'm not doing anything different than a normal library check-out process.
But yes, the solution here is for Kindle to read library books AND for all the DRM stuff to be greatly improved.