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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
As the law currently stands, breaking the copyright on someone else's material is against the law. So even if it's not "stealing" per se, they're still knowingly doing something they know they shouldn't be doing.
Removing DRM from a purchased ebook to better enable the reading of a book "probably" won't get someone in trouble. But probably's are like being pregnant--you either are or you aren't. So someone "probably" won't get in trouble, until they do, and it usually ties in to how much other stuff they have on their computer or whatever.
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And both are copyright infringement. In both cases the law gives the copyright holder the right to say: you can't share this and you can only read it on a specific device.