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Originally Posted by Piper_
I'm not sure who you're disagreeing with then, JW. 
If anyone here has said it was OK to keep the book - even past the time alotted - I haven't seen it.
All I've seen, including by KK, are defenses of stripping the DRM as long as you delete when it should be deleted. That caveat has been made clear several times.
The worst accusation against that has been that it means you *could* keep it. But by that logic, you shouldn't even download the library book, because you *could* strip the DRM and keep it. |
The issue I'm seeing is that people are conflating the legal standing of stripping the DRM from one's own property with that of stripping the DRM from someone else's. It's not simply a matter of the legality of stripping DRM, but also the question of property rights.
Do you have the same rights over something that you have borrowed or rented from someone else as you have over something you own?
That's the question that must be answered first.