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Cory could be wrong when he says that removing DRM is illegal. There are grey areas and one that most might not have thought about.
The one we have known about for a long time is FAIR USE. Fair use says we can strip the DRM for personal use. That was in place before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. There is nothing in that act that says that Fair use is out the window. So until we have it legally decided in a court of law, this will remain a grey area.
Now the other grey area (and this is a really good one), When Tor first went DRM with the eBook Redshirts by Jeffrey A. Carver, a number of eBook shops were not ready for this and it was still sold with DRM. The author put up on his blog to get the tools to remove the DRM if you bought it with DRM and the publisher allowed this. So with the author and publisher's consent, the tools were advocated to be used and used LEGALLY! So now we have the tools being distributed legally to legally strip the DRM. This is a very interesting grey area as the tools were legalized.
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