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This was also posted in the new user forum.

Hi, I'm new to this forum, but my friend and I have a dispute going on, and I wonder whether anyone can help us resolve it. It involves DRM. Yes, my friend and I both know that it may be illegal, but we question how far publishers and ebook distributors are willing to follow up on DRM violations. Has anyone ever been prosecuted for Drm violations? And speaking of privacy rights, if you strip a book of it's DRM and then load it onto, say your Kindle, does Amazon have the right to "look into your Kindle" to investigate whether the book that resides in your Library has been stripped of its DRM? If you use Calibre and it delivers your book (which has been stripped of its DRM) to Whispernet, does your Amazon or Kindle licenses or any other actions you have taken to buy and operate your Kindle allow anyone to "snoop" inside your kindle or your Whispernet actions to determine issues regarding DRM status? I say that somewhere during your procurement or use of your Kindle you have given up your rights, and that Amazon or its representatives have been granted rights by you to examine your Kindle or transmissions to it to determine whether copyright protection has been removed. My friend says that this is a clear invasion of privacy, and opens Amazon to huge legal liability. Any comments on who is right? Thanks in advance for anyone who cares to comment on this issue.