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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You break your country's DRM removal laws because you don't recognize the harm in doing so. You don't consider yourself "dishonest" because you trust yourself enough to uphold the "spirit" of the protection that DRM provides to rights-holders, if not the letter of it. Yet you deny the possibilty that others could (and do) do the same RE copyright and digital media. That's hipocrisy.
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I would make a clear distinction between removing DRM to allow me to read a book on a different device, and removing DRM to allow me to give a copy of a book to someone else. In my personal ethical system, the latter is dishonest; the former is not. Your ethical standards may of course differ, and that's entirely your concern. I certainly don't consider it hypocritical to say that copyright infringement (giving someone a copy of something, or lending someone the original while retaining a copy yourself) is dishonest. To my way of thinking, it IS dishonest.