[Polyphemus]

Originally Posted by crossi

How would the government ever know if all you do is make a de-DRM'd copy of all your books to store as a backup on a hard drive? They are scarcely going to search people's computers and files at random hoping to find a de-DRM'd book somewhere on it. As long as you don't post the book on the internet for others to download you are safe. I also remove matress tags in spite of the dire warnings against it and no arrests yet.

The government knows if you've removed the DRM because the black helicopters have special sensors to scan random computers and files to detect such things.