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Originally Posted by taosaur
The "rights owner" can attach a notice to each paper copy of their work that you must gambol thrice widdershins before setting it down, but you are still only beholden to actual copyright law.
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And that is the bottom line. Copyrights are governed by copyright law, not by contract law. There are provisions in the DMCA providing for stripping encryption for "purpose of cross compatibility." How they will interact with the provisions regarding the tools to do so is still being settled, but there's a clear intent to allow the consumer to put his Kindle book on a device that only does epub.