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Originally Posted by Macblaze
Since Bill C-11 is is now illegal to remove DRM in Canada. Stupid law. Yes I can remove the DRM but that would be illegal wouldn't it. :-).
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Illegal but not criminal. And the only remedies are those the copyright holder could bring against someone who infringed their copyright, and that excludes statutory damages.
So in Canada, remove DRM from ebooks from your own use is illegal, but the copyright holder would have to
(a) find out about it
(b) sue you
and
(c) show actual damages.
(1) is unlikely. (2) is, I suppose, possible as a test case/example. But (3) seems impossible.