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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you can see no moral difference between removing DRM and format shifting, to allow you to make free use of legally-bought books on different devices, and piracy, where you are taking it upon yourself to give copies of books to people who have no right whatsoever to have them, then I'm afraid that we are such poles apart that there's no point in continuing this discussion. I find your suggestion that DRM removal can in any way be equated to piracy to be utterly ludicrous.
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And I find your suggestion that lending someone an e-reader with a book on it can in any way be equated to piracy to be utterly ludicrous. There is NO illegal copy being made in that case, since the person is reading the SAME COPY that I read. (so no
copyright infringement, and, at least in the case of Amazon, not against the TOS,
since the question has been asked and answered.) Now...this is in contrast to your case, where you are, in fact, making a copy of the book, in DIRECT VIOLATION of, at the very least, the TOS, and, since you are removing DRM to do so, I believe it is still in violation of the law.
Shari