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Old 02-22-2011, 09:32 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
Any laws broken (or not) would depend on where you live, but removing DRM is certainly against the terms of use for both Amazon's website and the Kindle (in both its hardware and software forms).

The Harry Potter story sounds like an urban myth to me, but I think anyone emailing pirate books through Amazon is plain daft anyway.
Also, in the US I believe the Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to circumvent DRM even if there is no copyright violation.
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