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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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With permission from the copyright owner.
Which you don't have to remove the DRM or format shift.
I fully accept that in the country I live in, it is illegal for me to convert an Amazon-sourced eBook to read on another reader, as it is illegal for me to rip a CD to mp3. I do not in anyway accept that this makes either of them unethical, which is the other half of the thread title, and I intend to continue doing both of them.
As a practical matter, unconnected to ethics, is it clear that no one will ever be prosecuted for doing either.