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Old 02-21-2017, 07:14 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
i am not sure that format shifting for all media is 100% legal in all countries, if we are going to get all legalistic about it. But I have never read of anyone being sued for altering their copy of a purchased e-book.

pedantically, here's no way to format shift a kindle book delivered by amazon without stripping the DRM first,

but if you edit a file only for your own private use, not to re-sell or share , then
1) where's the harm, 2) who's to know
(emphasis mine) Actually, I can buy a Kindle book and, if it doesn't have DRM applied to it from Amazon, I can convert it to any format without any problems.

The only format that always has a form of DRM applied to it is KFX, and since that can't be converted at all yet anyway, your statement doesn't apply at all.

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