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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
I wish it was possible to keep backups without violating some agreement with the store.
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These agreements that are forced on customers are probably legal.
"You buy it, but we can take it away from you at any time by cancelling your membership for any or no reason, at our sole discretion, not subject to review. Oh, and by the way, our agreement also says you can't remove DRM either, so you can't keep your own functional copy outside of our control."
That is probably legal (shouldn't be, but probably is). But it is also very unethical. So the sellers pushing these unethical restrictions are probably resigned to the fact that many of their customers will respond with reciprocal unethical behavior and remove the DRM and copy the files anyway. Especially since the sellers are collecting all kinds of data on customers and selling that to advertisers for their own monetary gain. They don't seem to care if customers give them permission to do that or not.