Thread: Ethics and legalities of format shifting
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Old 01-03-2021, 03:17 AM   #74
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
With permission from the copyright owner.

Which you don't have to remove the DRM or format shift.
Well, sometimes we do I'm looking at a book now which says:

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All rights reserved. Where such permission is sufficient, the author grants the right to strip any DRM which may be applied to this work.

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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
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.
I fully agree. (Well, I'm not sure it's illegal in Norway. The last time I read about it, the legalities were undetermined, but that's several years ago.)

Are there anyone except ottischwenk who think DRM removal and format shifting is unethical?
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