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Originally Posted by sirmaru
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.
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My mother wanted to buy an e-book. It was infected with DRM. I told her not to buy it as I simply cannot explain via chat and email how she would have had to put the book on her ereader. I did install Calibre for her on her laptop and did explain how she could transfer files from there to her device. (no de-drm plugin available at the time). So, I bought the book, I sent her the cleaned file, she put it in her Calibre and from there to her Sony. I also put a copy in my Calibre as that is her backup. (thankfully, for her, because she thought she was smart this weekend, cleaning up her laptop and deleting all of her books in the process...)
I didn't loan her the book (she bought it) but I cleaned it for her and kept a copy for safekeeping myself (I wouldn't read it, as it's a Dutch translation of an English book and I already own the original English version...)
I believe what I did isn't really allowed, but I'd do it again in a flash...
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Originally Posted by Tizzalicious
Where di you buy those though? Because in a normal bookstore English books were definitely more expensive!
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I usually bought my English books in the UK, (thank the gods for internet!) and before that I told my local bookshop to order the English version for me...
And as already mentioned, it was always cheaper to buy something from the UK, with postage and handling abroad, than it was to buy from a Dutch B&M bookstore...
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Originally Posted by Iskariot
Oh... and I went to the American Bookstore and W.H. Smith in Amsterdam on a regular basis. Always came home with a bag of books. Great scifi mostly.
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That would have been even more expensive for me, living in Groningen as I do!