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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The UK now says that format shifting is legal, but Amazon says it's against their T&C. Who's right and who's wrong?
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Some rights can't be give up, even if you sign a contract that says you do. You can sign a contract that lets the other person kill you and eat your body, but that doesn't make it in any way legal. That's why publishers stopped putting in contract language prohibiting the lending of paper books in an attempt to stop libraries a century or more ago; the rights under the first sale doctrine cannot be given up (if it's a sale, not a lease).
Where the format shifting rights in the UK fall, I have no idea.