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Originally Posted by intheendofdays
Slightly off topic but wasn't there something going through parliament to allow for removal of DRM for back up purposes a while ago? Did it fall through?
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There was talk of making it legal to format-shift, like copying a CD onto an mp3 player, but for some mysterious reason it failed to happen.
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Originally Posted by intheendofdays
I can see removing DRM being enforced in the context of mass-piracy of books but I can't see Amazon giving away DRM information for individuals in general.
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If a publisher asked for that information I can't see Amazon refusing to provide it. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if having that capability written into the firmware of the Kindle wasn't a condition of them allowing Amazon to sell their ebooks when they were first approached with the idea.
The real question would be whether the publishers would do that. I'm not really convinced that the big publishers think particularly rationally about DRM and piracy, so nothing they did would surprise me.