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Originally Posted by Yapyap
I remove DRM from books I've bought as a matter of course. (I'm not entirely sure whether this makes me a criminal - I've read the Estonian copyright law twice and while it says one shouldn't remove protective measures from works, it also says a physical person has the right to free reproduction of a work for personal use and authors must ensure that any protective measures don't deny people that right to reproduction. Or something like that.)
I've also downloaded books from the darknet. (As far I can tell, this doesn't make a me a criminal here. A pirate though, yes.)
While I'm fully aware that the main reason behind my downloading books is a personal sense of entitlement, I do follow a personal ethical code: I pirate books that are either not legally available as ebooks at all or are not available to me (although in the latter case, I've taken to attempting to pretend I'm American and get it that way, which again means I'm breaking some kind of laws - however, I'd like to believe the authors hate me less for that crime).
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I don't know of any Americans who would prefer to NOT get paid. The copyright law is there to help us get paid, so if you have to go around some other law to make sure the author gets some money, well, gosh, I'm sure most of us will hold back any tendency to complain.
