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Originally Posted by chas0039
I think you are making a primarily moral and practical argument. This is not to be confused with a legal argument. A long time ago, one of the best professors I have ever had taught me to never overlap the two.
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Yes, I agree, they should not be confused.
But I choose to live my life by what I believe is morally right and true in my heart, which doesn't always agree with how some bureaucrat or corporation or industry wants me to behave.
Might I get in trouble for thinking that way some day?
Maybe, but at least I'll know I followed my heart, and treated my fellow man the way I would choose to be treated. In the end, that's the best a person can do.
In my mind, stripping DRM (again, I've never done it) to use a book I paid for (or checked out of the library), the way I see fit (on a different eReader for example), for my own personal use, is not morally wrong. The author/company got paid, and I got to read the book.