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They way I have read the debate is that it is illegal to build the tools to break DRM but not illegal to use the tools. I could very well be wrong, I am not a lawyer and I did not stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
On top of that, I think that someone would have to be way too interested in peaking into my computer to see if I had removed DRM or not.
I think that the industry and prosecutors are going to go after people who are sharing there books on pirate sites and not the person who is buying the book they want and putting it on their e-reader after removing the DRM and converting the file.
Again, I am not a lawyer and I slept in my own bed last night so my word is no where near law and could be 100% wrong.
This site and others take a hard line about allowing explicit instructions on removing DRM because they are read in many countries and there are some countries that have laws that clearly state that it is illegal to strip DRM. We all respect that so we don't break that rule because we like the folks here and don't want to contribute to the board being shut down. Yeah us.
Other then that, I tend to think of the decision as more of an ethical decision and that the legal decision is to pirate books or not.
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