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Originally Posted by dadioflex
But Harry, is it "right" that someone who cracks a DRM scheme could be sharing a cell with a pedophile?
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Please don't misunderstand me - I don't personally give two hoots about the legality or otherwise of DRM removal; in fact, I think it's ridiculous that it should be illegal to remove the DRM from something that you've perfectly legally bought. As I've just said in another thread, what I object to as a point of principle about tools like this is that they send out completely the wrong message about DRM.
I think we are all agreed that we'd like to see publishers sell DRM-free books, right? Tools like this will do the opposite - they will only encourage people to buy from publishers who use DRM, and give them the idea that what they are doing is some sort of "success". What we should be doing is entirely the opposite - NOT buy from publishers who use DRM, but from those who don't use it.