Thread: "Most e-books in The Netherlands are not paid for."
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Old 02-11-2014, 01:36 AM   #124
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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.
It has been said before: this is not how Alf works.

Only the person buying the books can de-DRM them. If you buy a book and then give it to me, DRM and all, I can't do anything with it. This is because the book is encrypted with YOUR key, so Alf can't remove DRM using MY key.

Therefore, books in a Torrent have to be de-DRM'ed already, or they're useless.
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