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Originally Posted by doctorow
This discussion is very amusing. Some argue that it is illegal to circumvent DRM just as it is illegal to speed or it is illegal to have sex with a child. It's illegal because it says so in the law.
Fine. We all know what happens when you get caught speeding. We also know what happens when you get caught having sex with a child. Can anyone please tell me what happens when you get caught stripping DRM from an e-book for your own use? All these people who cry foul at the mere idea of breaking the law, please help me shed some light on what will happen to me if I get caught stripping DRM.
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I grant that many MR participants and ebook customers reside outside the US, but we here in the US seem to have forgotten that the US wasn't founded in order to protect, promulgate and respect the "LAW". We were founded to get out from under a system that abused "the LAW" to keep colonists under the thumb of a distant and uncaring government. It's about time we got back to our roots and started getting rid of all these "laws" that have been created for the sole purpose of making personal activity "illegal".
Derek