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Originally Posted by jersysman
Maybe, but it puts Calibre in a bad light as far as DRM removal goes. Even though the creator has spent so much distancing himself for that particular thing. I don't think that's cool.
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BoB gives wrong information, and I think they know that.
If one installs it, it cannot remove DRM; not by default. One needs to research that for oneself. Therefore, Calibre is safe.
Consider the LAME mp3-encoder. It is prohibited to give away a program that can create mp3's, without paying royalties. However, giving away programming code is allowed... So, LAME is just a piece of code, for 'educational purposes', and it 'happens' to be able to create mp3's when compiled.
Same with Calibre. It doesn't have anything to do with DRM; technically, BoB is wrong there. It just 'happens to be' that a plugin written for Calibre consisting of 'educational code' can also de-DRM books.
People might just find that plugin when looking how to remove DRM using Calibre.