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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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.
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Interesting. I will have look closer at your suppositions vis a vis criminality. It is an interesting distinction.
Anyway. I am still going to keep annoying the parties involved because a) I am stubborn and b) there is a record of me having purchased (or leased or whatever the TOS says I am doing) them and I should be able to access them all within the system.
The original question was asked and answered. I'll update this if I ever get resolution.