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Old 05-30-2017, 05:25 AM   #16
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[Regards removing DRM from library books]
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
The process that works for bought books will work for library. That is a technical fact But even typing that sentence here is borderline on a ban

, though if you are honestly deleting your temp modified copies at end of loan period then I don't have an ethical issue.
One issue could be that we don't actually know whether the author is being paid per borrow, or whether a certain amount of the book has to be read (on an authorised app/device) as with some subscription systems. Later versions of ADE are said to support payment models other than per borrow, I don't know if those features are actually used by any libraries yet, but it is likely that removing DRM and readng outside the authorised environment would interfere with them.
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