Thread: How does ePUB DRM work?
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Old 03-14-2011, 12:33 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by delphin View Post
"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.
Circumventing the DRM is removing/disabling/exploiting it to allow you to do something that the DRM would otherwise prevent. If you buy a book from Amazon, which has DRM allowing it to only be read by Amazon devices and apps, and you remove the DRM to allow you to read it with a different bit of hardware, then you have circumvented the DRM.
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