Thread: White House will propose new digital copyright laws
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Old 02-08-2011, 03:06 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
Personally I see this as not really relevant since its simple and easy to remove DRM and do what ever I care to with the electronic books I buy I do not see that the US Government can and will stop Calibre from removing DRM.
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Originally Posted by 6charlong View Post
Actually, Calibre does not remove DRM. It lets you take a text or HTML file and turn it into files that can be read on eBook readers capable of rendering Mobi, ePUB, etc. The original file has to be free of DRM before Calibre can load it.
A plain install of Calibre won't remove DRM, but there are plugins that will remove DRM. I suspect jbcohen was referring to a copy of Calibre with those plugins.
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