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Originally Posted by delphin
Keep in mind there is NO SUCH THING as cracking DRM.
Nearly all DRM systems are now based on AES, an extremely strong cryptographic algorithm, and until some enterprising hacker figures out the back door that the NSA almost certainly left in that cypher, DRM systems can never be 'cracked'.
What the current I-heart-cabbages scripts do is use your legally obtained key to decrypt your legally obtained ebook content, so you can view it more flexibly.
I don't see how simply decrypting DRM using a legally obtained Key incidental to viewing content that was also legally obtained can be construed as a crime.
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The law uses the term "circumvention". Extracting the content so that you can use it without going through the encryption at later times most definitely circumvents the scheme. To the extent your "I don't see how" was directed at the morality of pretending to sell someone something when really it's only a rental, I'm with ya.