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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
You remove DRM, thereby making general readability possible.
It's against the law.
If you read the associated Kindle on the purchase account, then it corresponds to the license that you purchased.
If you read on another device, and that is only possible with DRM removal, then you withhold the purchase price for another license that you would legally need.
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Ah, but I didn't ask if it was legal. You earlier claimed that doing this hurt the author, that's what I'm asking about.
I'm aware that what I do hurt Amazon, I see that as somewhere between morally neutral and morally beneficent.
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The binding of a reader to a format is not God-given, and has no advantages, but brutal business management in that it binds the customer to a shop, from which he can only get out by violating the law.
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Yes, I agree completely! That's why I think it's ethically fine to break that binding. And as long as the legal consequences are unlikely to be worse than I'm prepared to chance, I'll continue to do so.