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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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If you remove DRM to read the book on another device, you are a) making a copy, and b) making an copy that the author/publisher did not authorise.
This, according to your other posts, is a bad thing.
By imposing DRM, the publisher is very clearly only 'selling' you a version to operate inside of that DRM universe. By breaking the DRM and producing another different copy of the book (at this point, you have two copies of the book), you have clearly gone against the ability of the publisher to control the copying of the book.
This, according to your other posts, is a bad thing.