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Originally Posted by darryl
As I understand it, you are equating breaching a term of the license to being ethically wrong. Yet it seems that you regard removing DRM, a very clear breach of the license agreement, as being ethically sound.
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No, not exactly. I've no particular issue with violating licence agreements where such violations cause no harm or loss to anyone. Removing DRM from books you've legitimately bought seems to me to fit into this category: nobody's lost anything if I buy a Kindle book, remove DRM from it, and then read that book on my Kindle.
What I specifically regard as unethical is the unauthorised sharing of copyrighted material (ie piracy). That's why I'm interested in knowing whether or not Amazon's licence agreement allows you to share content with your friends. Clearly it's authorised if you do it via the "Family Sharing" route or using the official mechanism for lending a book, but it's unclear to me that giving your friend a Kindle registered to your account falls into this category of permitted content sharing.