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Originally Posted by kennyc
Copyright and publishing are in flux. You THINK you know what you are talking about but it is clear you don't. You have opinions and not very well informed ones as best I can tell.
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Tell me exactly which provision of the DMCA permits the stripping of DRMs from eBooks under any and all circumstances.
From Amazon's Terms of Service:
1. Kindle Content
Use of Kindle Content. Upon your download of Kindle Content and payment of any applicable fees (including applicable taxes), the Content Provider grants you a non-exclusive right to view, use, and display such Kindle Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Kindle or a Reading Application or as otherwise permitted as part of the Service, solely on the number of Kindles or Supported Devices specified in the Kindle Store, and solely for your personal, non-commercial use.
Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider. The Content Provider may include additional terms for use within its Kindle Content. Those terms will also apply, but this Agreement will govern in the event of a conflict. Some Kindle Content, such as Periodicals, may not be available to you through Reading Applications.
Limitations. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense, or otherwise assign any rights to the Kindle Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove or modify any proprietary notices or labels on the Kindle Content.
In addition, you may not bypass, modify, defeat, or circumvent security features that protect the Kindle Content.
From Kobo's Terms of Use for the iPhone (I couldn't find their terms for other products, though I assume they are similar):
2. Scope of License:
Any product downloaded, purchased, viewed or any copy of any Submission or Literary Work (collectively a "Product") transacted through the Service which is accessed by you on any iPhone or iPod is licensed, not sold, to you for use only under the terms of this license, unless a Product is accompanied by a separate license agreement, in which case the terms of that separate license agreement will govern, subject to your prior acceptance of that separate license agreement. Kobo and its licensors ("Application Provider") reserve all rights not expressly granted to you. The Product that is subject to this license is referred to in this license as the "Licensed Application."