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Originally Posted by HarryT
Precisely. If you strip DRM to get rights you shouldn't have, then that's a violation. And that's exactly what you're doing when you strip library DRM - you're getting rights you shouldn't have: namely, the right to keep the book indefinitely. Whether or not you choose to exercise that right is of no relevance; the important point is that by removing the DRM you have gained a right that the copyright holder did not intend you to have.
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Nonsense. I have the technical ability, not the right. I have the technical ability to photocopy any book I buy and sell copies, but copyright law denies me that right, so I don't do it even if I wanted to.
Same thing here. By your reasoning, No one could legally have ANY protected ebook, because we have the technical ability (what you are wrongly calling a 'right') to read it aloud to a public audience, which copyright protection prohibits us from doing in most cases.
ApK