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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Also very easy. If you read on two different types of devices (e.g. Kindle and Kobo), you need two different files - thus two licenses. And if you only bought one, then you withhold the amount for the second.Simply by removing DRM for whatever reason, redistribution is made possible.
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And if the file is not DRMmed? I don't know about the ebooks you buy but the majority of the ones I purchase are not DRMmed. And I do notice that several publishers such as Baen and Tor make their books available in multiple formats with only one purchase necessary.
So when I download a ebook from Amazon in mobi, azw3, KFX and AZK, I need to purchase three more copies to allow downloading on those platforms?
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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
And that is against the law, at least in the EU, and also punishable.
In addition, any change to the file is a violation of copyright law and a conversion from xxx to yyy means a file change.
And even if it isn't discovered, it doesn't change the facts.
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Perhaps you should re-read copyright law? Or take a quick course in plagiarism. Considering that Kobo routinely makes changes to the files to add the mass of spans required by kepub files and no publisher has yet complained might suggest that you don't know what you are talking about. Or even to use your favourite rant about DRM, an Adobe or Amazon DRMmed file has been changed from the original.