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Originally Posted by iandix
It could be covered under copyright violation..
but what I would class it as .. seeing you have made a contract (with overdrive) and you are violating that contract (you agreed to the contract with no intention to follow the restrictions) then that would be "gaining benefits by deception" which in most countries is a criminal charge. But I would be surprised if a court would waste their time on such a minor issue, at most all I would imagine would be to have your account closed.
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Overdrive does not have the right to take *my* tax dollars and then limit the way I access library books.
I'm a tax-payer. I pay for the library. Overdrive does not pay for the library in my locality (Overdrive does not have offices in my neighborhood). *Yes*, they're providing a service, but that service does *not* give them the right to come between me and my library books. Overdrive does that for the benefit of the publishers, not for the benefit of the library patrons.
If ebooks are going to be offered in libraries, then the publishers (and Overdrive) do not have the right to dictate what sort of ereader I have to buy in order to make use of the library. It's *my* facility (and the facility of the other people in my neighborhood), not theirs.
Corporations do NOT have the right (at least in the US) to deny explicit rights by wrapping their products up in protective technologies meant to control their use _after_ purchase. Except, of course, that they've been buying that ability from Congress. It doesn't make it any less illegal and immoral.
That all said, I understand why Amazon doesn't have epub support in kindles. I do "wish" they did (and it would be nice if they would eventually approve an epub "app"), but I understand why they don't. At this point, it's on me to make other arrangements.