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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It would certainly be unethical to do so, and possibly illegal, and not a subject for discussion at MobileRead.
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Most definitely unethical.
This is not a simple transcoding scenario or a backup concern, like DeDRMing a book that you bought a "perpetual" reading license for.
It's not even DeDRMing a library book where a rationalizer might argue their taxes paid for the license and the author got paid. (False, but still some might use that excuse.)
But DeDRMing a KU book has no excuse or rationalization possible because authors *only* get paid *if* the book is read. Downloading a KU title, DeDRMing it "to read later" and returning it unread means the author never gets paid. Same as outright piracy.
More, since most of the books in KU are Indie or small press, their sale price is already more than reasonable to start with. These aren't overpriced agency ebooks. Why go out of your way to ripoff somebody playing by reader-friendly rules?
Come on!