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Originally Posted by HansTWN
You are right on the money --- and buying only non-DRM books is just not an option at this point.
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I only buy non-DRM'd ebooks. I don't even download freebies with DRM, or that require store-specific software to open. I can see that students might be stuck in a position where they have to deal with DRM or give up on their education, but for everyone else, it's a choice.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
I also think that NOBODY should be going around urging people to remove DRM unless they are 100 per cent sure that there will be no legal liability. That's just me, though.
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There is no law, nor moral imperative, to only suggest those actions that one is certain are entirely legal.
Gay sex was illegal in a lot of places in the US, not long ago. My religion has been banned in various locations; a lot of my religious practices are occasionally banned by some cities. Some laws are immoral and oppressive, and part of the process of changing them is breaking them--because if nobody breaks them, the people who want the laws to stay claim that there's no demand for them to change.
I don't the the DMCA anti-circumvention law is parallel with laws against religion or orientation--but it is an invasive law, declaring what a person can & can't do in the privacy of their own home, with no harm to anyone. And it's not even clear that breaking DRM for the purpose of reading on a different device, or backup in case of store shutdown, is illegal.
Those who advocate DRM-cracking should certainly inform people that it's legally iffy. However, plenty of us are willing to break laws in ways that
don't cause any damage.