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Old 02-24-2012, 10:33 AM   #146
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Originally Posted by Bittybye View Post
But unless you go around waving a flag outside your door saying "I STRIP DRM!" how will they know you've stripped it? I'm not talking about sharing, I'd never do that. But I've heard enough horror stories about people having their accounts closed for little to no reason and losing all their books not to have a backup.

And as far as I know stripping the DRM is legal here in Canada. Something about fare use. I could be wrong though.
DRM status of ebooks you open is one of the things the Kindle logs. DRM removal is also a violation of Amazon's terms of use, even if it is legal in your country, so they would be within their rights to block you if they wanted to. I can't see why they would want to, but it's not beyond the realms of fantasy that a publisher might insist on it one day.
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