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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
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.
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"Circumvention" in this context is somewhat ambiguous. In practical terms, if you are just viewing licensed content on a different device, or attempting to make other reasonable 'fair use' of the copyrighted material that was sold to you, it would be extremely difficult to argue that you had 'circumvented' the DRM in a way that was meaningful in a legal sense.
In the U.S. at least, the whole status of 'rights on first sale' in regard to ebooks is still up in the air.
Amazon asserts that their customers are only 'licensing a copy' of the work in some kind of nebulous 'lifetime lease', but their commercials boldly advertise 'buy it once, read it everywhere' which clearly implies an outright purchase conveying full ownership rights equivalent to a standard book.
I would LOVE to see a class action by Kindle owners demanding the right to re-sell their Kindle books on Amazon's open marketplace, or alternatly forcing Amazon to issue a FULL REFUND of their purchase, allowing them to return the titles.
You can resell a paper book, why not an electronic book?
