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Old 11-29-2017, 04:49 PM   #317
pwalker8
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Personally speaking, my conscience is clear about both buying books from different countries and removing DRM for personal use. In both cases, the author has been paid for the sale, and nobody has lost anything. I have no moral qualms about either activity.
Same here. There is a legal doctrine which says that there must be injury for something to be actionable, or in basketball terms, no harm, no foul. If I buy a book in the UK that I can't buy in the US, then no one is harmed. That's true of either paper book or ebook. If I buy an ebook, then remove the DRM so I can back up my copy and read it on a different device, no one is harmed.
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