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Originally Posted by Catlady
Format conversion is the gateway to piracy.
Didn't you claim that an individual is responsible for safeguarding a file? If you strip the DRM, and someone else manages to get ahold of it and upload it to a file-sharing site, doesn't that make you guilty of copyright infringement and piracy?
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Apply a "reasonable person" standard. If the stripper left the stripped file lying around on a public server? Yeah, maybe he's responsible. If it was on their personal machine at home and someone took it without permission? Well, then you might as well claim the author of the book is guilty of piracy because it couldn't have happened if he didn't write it in the first place.
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Fine with me if you want to cherry-pick which parts of the TOS and copyright to obey and which to ignore, but others may draw distinctions differently and think it's just fine to copy a de-DRMed file to loan to a friend.
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I can make what I think is pretty darn effective fair use case for personal format shifting. Not so much for giving out duplicates.