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Originally Posted by booklover6
I wasn't aware that doing that to a book one has purchased legally was breaking the law.
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"Maybe," is the answer to that. It has been ruled that simply stripping the DRM is not necessarily enough to trigger the DMCA. However, even some personal uses might be. It's a gray area, and basically, they can decide you're doing something illegal if they want to. It is, at the very least, a breach of license.
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Originally Posted by cgsmom
I bought some ebooks from Amazon back in 2005 in LIT format to read on my PDA with Microsoft Reader. Now Amazon will not even acknowledge that I bought them. If I hadn't backed them up on my PC (and converted to epub), I wouldn't have them at all. I back up every book I own. Also, I never buy anything I can't liberate.
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...Here's a perfect example of what I mean. And it is only one way in which this can happen - it has happened through several different means of discontinued support.