Thread: "Most e-books in The Netherlands are not paid for."
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Old 02-11-2014, 01:36 AM   #123
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Originally Posted by sirmaru View Post
If a person has built a collection of 40,000 eBooks by downloading from a bit Torrent site, using Calibre to organize them and the Alf plugin to make them all readable on any eReader, he MAY be running some risk of a civil suit sometime in the future. I doubt if there would ever be any criminal prosecutions.
No one who relies on torrented/pirated ebooks has any use for the Alf plugins. Calibre for collection organisation, sure, but people downloading books from pirate sites are not removing DRM - if there is any DRM removal done during the entire pirating process, it's only, and I mean ONLY, by the original uploader, before uploading.

DRM-d books are not torrented. It would be useless if they were since any DRM removal tools for ebooks can only be used on books you have bought/legally acquired yourself. If someone uploads a book with DRM intact, no one who downloads it can read it and they cannot remove DRM from it.

Someone who has downloaded 40,000 books by torrenting may well end up prosecuted some day (in theory anyway), even in locations where downloading is legal (since torrenting means uploading as well), but it's because they've participated in pirating 40,000 books and not because of using DRM removal tools on those books.

They cannot use DRM removal tools on those books even if they wanted to. They can only use DRM removal tools on books they have personally bought / personally legitimately acquired.
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