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Originally Posted by tompe
I have hard time seeing why it should not be legal.
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I agree that stripping DRM for personal use on ebooks that you bought harms no one. However, adding DRM circumvention to firmware made available to everyone would certainly place the authors and distributors in legal jeopardy in the US and perhaps other places.
One work around would be to add an interface for format shifting plug-ins and have the plug-ins (downloaded from who knows where, and definitely not bundled in the firmware) do the DRM stripping. There would have to be at least one useful plug-in that did not strip DRM for this to pass muster. However, the current approach of having a DRM-free reading device and DRM-stripping going on some where else works well for those familiar with computers. This is one reason why the Nokia tablets are popular ebook readers even without native DRM support from any ebook vendor.