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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
There is no country I know of where removing of DRM is considered legal. In the ones where it is undecided, it is still morally wrong, because you willfully abuse a loophole.
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I do not believe it is illegal* to remove DRM from a product that one has legally obtained in either the USA or the UK. Would you care to give a reference to either a USA or UK law that you believe states that it is?
Although even if it were illegal* to remove DRM from a product that one has legally obtained, in my opinion it is not immoral.
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is illegal** in the UK to take a music CD that one owns and copy the data representing the music onto a computer. But I don't think that that is immoral either.
* criminally illegal - i.e. a crime for which the government could prosecute you.
** civilly illegal - i.e. a deed for which the copyright holder could bring a civil case against you