Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 01-31-2012, 10:06 AM   #90
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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To me, DRM removal and piracy are entirely separate matters. Sure, to pirate a book, the DRM most be removed before it is uploaded, but most people simply remove the DRM from books they bought because they want to insure their purchases will still be readable in the future should ereaders develop new formats that aren't backwards-compatible, or should the company from which they bought their reader go belly-up. While MobileRead has a strictly enforced policy that prevents members from detailing how to remove DRM or from linking from sites that do; as far as I'm concerned, people have a perfect right to remove DRM from books for their own use. I'm against piracy on ethical grounds, but I have no problem whatsoever with DRM removal.
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