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Originally Posted by pilotbob
So, will you be double buying books? eReader books can not be read on the Sony. Or, will you be removing DRM and putting them on your Sony too?
Of course I am not baiting you to admit you will be breaking the DCMA... just more of a rhetorical question.
BOb
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Actually, there's a very respectable body of legal reasoning that says that removing DRM for personal use
DOES NOT violate the DMCA.
Writing or distributing the software that does the DRM-removal violates the DMCA.
Telling someone else where to get such software or how to use it
probably violates the DMCA. But simply using it (for personal use ONLY) does not violate the DMCA. Probably. (The law's not clear, and it hasn't yet been tested in court. So any statement of legality or illegality is only probable.)
Xenophon
The above is not legal advice. It's based on discussion with a variety of IP lawyers in a graduate seminar on digital copyright issues. Your mileage may vary.