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Originally Posted by Miss
I'd be interested to hear others' input on this. It's a different way of looking at things than I was. I notice in the fine print of some (not all) DRMed books it gives restrictions that would literally mean it cannot be used on any ereader that connects to a computer for its material:
"No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retreival system...by any means - electronic...or otherwise - without the prior written permission of the publisher."
Except that the only way for me to use my ereader is to first get the book on my comptuer and then place a copy of it onto my ereader. Is this fine print what you're referring to as a "license agreement"? Because I thought those were always agreed to *prior* to obtaining the material.
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When it comes to pbooks the idea of copyright is a straightforward one: it's the right to make copies. In the digital world it is different and I suspect that that is because those who write the laws are computer illiterate. For example if you have an ebook on your PC and your system does an automatic backup you are making a copy of the book. Technically according to the license agreement you shouldn't have a book on such a PC.
On the bright side, not everything in the license agreement is actually enforceable.
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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
If you purchased your books at Amazon or B&N or any other place that has a proprietary format (like .azw) and that registers whatever ebook directly to your device, you might first have to strip any DRM off the book. In which case, there is a very slim possibility that you can get in trouble. But unless you've done any kind of illegal stuff that might draw attention to you, there's not much to worry about. Or you could share your account with your friend or whoever, only they're able to see whatever past books you've purchased and they're able to use your One-Click settings to order other books.
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You should realize that this is the kind of attitude that pirates have in respect to copyright law. Just because you (probably) won't get caught for stripping DRM doesn't make it any less illegal.