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Originally Posted by avantman42
That's what I'm interested in exploring. Does removing DRM count as format conversion? If it does, then it's illegal, if it doesn't, then it isn't. I'd have thought there's a reasonably strong case for saying that it is format conversion.
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No. If you remove DRM from a Mobi file, it's still a Mobi file; if you remove DRM from an ePub file, it's still an ePub file. You've modified the file, but you haven't changed its format. It's not illegal to modify data that you've legally bought.