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Right. DRM removal is a tool people can use so they can read an eBook they BOUGHT from the store of their choice on the device of their choice. It doesn't have to have anything to do with pirating or sharing.
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Er, except that they didn't legally BUY the BOOK: they bought a license to access the efile, which remains on the bookstore's servers.
I really blame the publishers for this: they should pop up a EULA every time they do a transaction, so that people could at least LOOK at what they're agreeing to. But in the interest of 1-click purchasing, Amazon and others dispensed with that, so now we have lots of entitled people talking about their "right of first sale" as if title to the actual file changed hands.
In any case, whatever the nature of the transaction, the author's copyright should remain inviolate. Breaking DRM is generally preparatory to violating the author's copyright , as in "sharing" an ebook with family and friends.
I think the era of the person who buys a dedicated reader but wants to buy a book from some other store is passing, anyway, so that reason for breaking DRM will soon go away.