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Originally Posted by taustin
That was over DVDs, not ebooks, which brings a different host of issues. There were also licensing violation involved, and RealNetworks was found to have deliberately destroyed evidence. It's a lot more involved that just DMCA issues. It was also about distribution, not production or use. (DMCA prohibits trafficking, but no possession or use, per se.)
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Yes, I know it was a different case, but it did appear to establish a principle that you don't have the right to break one law in order to exercise your rights under another. ie Even though format conversion is perfectly legal, it doesn't necessarily mean that removing DRM in order to permit format conversion is OK.