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Old 03-03-2011, 12:32 PM   #59
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
You, you are right. They are screwed. But they don't have to be.

I guess folks might be worried that the police are going to come banging into their house to check and see if they have stripped DRM from their books to put on a new ereader. I think that the police are busy enough looking into more serious crimes and handing out speeding tickets to conduct an investigation in order to get a search warrent to check an individual persons computer for books whose DRM has been removed.

Which makes DRM removal a legal issue in many countries but more likely then not the decision to strip DRM or not is an ethical question for each person more so then a legal problem.
Whether someone is an advocate or critic, DRM is unlikely to go away anytime soon, so e-reader users must choose whichever strategy suits them best and proceed accordingly. As I indicated in my earlier posts, I prefer the simpler option of avoiding DRM altogether, either by reading free content, or buying e-books that are DRM-free.
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