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Originally Posted by Ankh
In both USA and Canada, if I am not mistaken, there are but a few legal exceptions to the "DRM is sacred" rule. DRM removal is illegal, almost always. If a publisher was to, say, watermark, in addition to DRM, a book, you end up with a product where discovery of DRM removal is automated (the book has watermark, it is not DRM-ed).
I am playing a devil's advocate when I say that I can see why they would attempt to attack the piracy both at the destination (end user of pirated content) and on the source (persecution of those who remove the DRM and distribute the content).
"Dear user, the file that you attempted to open on your reader had DRM removed, and your reader has been locked until you either:
- Call our 1-800 number, or
- purchase a copy from our store."
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It's possible, but there will always be readers that *don't* do that, at least outside of Canada. All readers enforcing a policy such as the one you state will not be popular for very long. I can't believe that Canada would actually forbid to import foreign readers.