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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Fair use" laws vary dramatically from country to country. From what I understand of their respective laws, in the US it perhaps is fair use, but in the UK, at the current time at least, it is assuredly not
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In Germany, the situation is somewhat peculiar. There are two somewhat contradictory regulations: One grants the right to make backup copies of media that you own (without restrictions other than "for personal use only"), and one that forbids circumventing DRM. With a bit of mental acrobatics, one could justify that an ebook is a backup of a paper book, because the content is the same, and by downloading a DRM-disinfected version I wouldn't circumvent the DRM bits of the ebook (already comes stripped).