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Originally Posted by purple_fishy
I have heard of people removing the DRM from their own purchased books in order to create a backup or to be able to read the book on multiple ereaders.
I want to know if this is even legal. My question is in the context of wanting to have a back up copy for myself or for being able to read a B&N nookbook on a Sony ereader etc.
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If you've read down this far you've seen a whole range of answers. Let me step sideways, and ask you to look at two other factors:
- It's not so very long ago that it was perfectly legal to sire a child by a black slave and then sell that child, and it was a very serious criminal offense to teach a slave to read and an even more serious criminal offense to help a slave to escape. Is it possible that legality does not necessarily equate to morality?
- If you remove DRM only for the purpose of back up or to move to a different reader who is hurt by you doing that? And if no one is hurt what is wrong with doing that?