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Originally Posted by HarryT
With the greatest respect, Jo, that's not the case. Some legal authorities argue that DRM removal is legal in the US; others, that it is not. Nobody will know the answer one way or another until someone is prosecuted and a case reaches a sufficiently high court to make a decision which will act as a legal precedent. It's very definitely a "grey area".
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Sorry Harry,
It is illegal in USA, indeed. It is against the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
Any way to circumvent the measures, including breaking DRM encryption, falls under such law. The DMCA prohibits circumvention. I know it for sure, I've taken some lectures at work.
If this is being enforced on regular users or not, who just want to read their books on a different device, that's different. I guess in practical terms is hard to make a legal case and big companies are not interested.