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Originally Posted by ApK
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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It's not what I'm claiming, it's my understanding of what HarryT has claimed--that the person who paid for the use of the book is responsible for safeguarding it. So if Cousin Pete sits down at my computer to check his e-mail and happens to notice an e-book and e-mails the file to himself, it's my fault if he then distributes it to the world, since I had a duty to protect that file, which I violated in the first place by stripping DRM and thereby making it easy for Pete to get it.
I think that's absurd.
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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.
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I can make a case for giving out a duplicate; I've shared physical books with people and now I may want to share an e-book. It's the same behavior but a different way of doing it.
I can't make a case for uploading a book for everyone in the world to access, however.
The point is that different people will draw the lines in different places. Or else regard the TOS and copyright notices as sacrosanct and obey them absolutely--which means no stripping of DRM and no format-shifting whatsoever.