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Originally Posted by sirmaru
The EU Court of Justice has just ruled on this issue per this other thread here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=233365
It appears DRM removal is fine as long as it does not result in sharing a file with anyone else.
If you do it for backup, that is alright. If you loan the stripped file to your brother, you have violated the law. Of course, this just applies to Europe, not the US, Asia or any other location. |
It has always been like this in the Netherlands.
Dutch law specifically states that you are
have the right (which, IMHO, is even a step further than just being allowed) to created as many copies as you want for personal use and backup purposes.
This implies that you also
must have the right to circumvent copy protections, or you wouldn't be able to exercise the right to create a copy for personal use or backup. (I do not know on the top of my head what Dutch law states about this, but I'm pretty sure it says something similar to the ruling linked above.)
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If authorities inspected someone's PC for totally unrelated reasons and found recently dated files without the proper serial numbers, than an example could be made of that person if he could not explain the reasons for it....
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What you are saying is this:
- A person is suspected of crime X, and authorities are searching for evidence toward that crime.
- Damn. We can't find any. But hey... We found some e-books, for which that person has no e-mail receipt. Great! If we can't bust him for crime X, then we just charge him with the crime of stealing e-books!
As far as I know, that is not allowed, but IANAL.