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Originally Posted by Piper_
I definitely agree it would be wrong if I kept it.
The DRM is there to make sure I don't keep it. I'm not keeping it, so no harm, no foul.
To me, this is no different from when you go in for a procedure at the hospital and they give you a form to fill out.  You have to agree to a lot of things, but if you ask your doctor, he'll often tell you you can ignore some of those prohibitions, leave out some data, or even skip some of the prep.
Respecting intent and high ethics are more important than following technicalities, imo. |
I can certainly see the point, and in the long run for many people I'm sure that's exactly how it works out.
Having said that, it still doesn't justify the idea that the library should support breaking the DRM so that people can read their books on Kindle - or that stripping DRM from library books is legally equivalent to stripping DRM from one's own purchased books, and so the same arguments that justify the latter would therefore justify the former as well.