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Quoth · 01-03-2021, 04:22 PM

Also if you reset your Kindle and Amazon's servers are down, or you have no internet, or Amazon orphans that model or gets out of ebooks, then ebooks with DRM are unreadable.

Also if you do too many returns or otherwise annoy Amazon, they can disable your account. If then the Kindle is factory reset or broken or lost then with DRM you have lost access to the books.

The same applies to Adobe ADE validation.

No-one will be sued for removing DRM on their own purchases that they don't share.
People ARE sued for uploading or selling copies of ANYTHING that's copyright, whether or not there was DRM.

Copyright violation is distributing unauthorised copies. You can be sued.

Personal DRM removal and format shifting may or may not be technically illegal (without redistribution). It's not actually something you'll be prosecuted for even if it's technically illegal. You'll certainly not be sued, which is the normal recourse for illegal redistribution of content (copyright violation aka piracy).

01-03-2021, 04:22 PM	#153
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,447 Karma: 107078855 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Also if you reset your Kindle and Amazon's servers are down, or you have no internet, or Amazon orphans that model or gets out of ebooks, then ebooks with DRM are unreadable. Also if you do too many returns or otherwise annoy Amazon, they can disable your account. If then the Kindle is factory reset or broken or lost then with DRM you have lost access to the books. The same applies to Adobe ADE validation. No-one will be sued for removing DRM on their own purchases that they don't share. People ARE sued for uploading or selling copies of ANYTHING that's copyright, whether or not there was DRM. Copyright violation is distributing unauthorised copies. You can be sued. Personal DRM removal and format shifting may or may not be technically illegal (without redistribution). It's not actually something you'll be prosecuted for even if it's technically illegal. You'll certainly not be sued, which is the normal recourse for illegal redistribution of content (copyright violation aka piracy). Last edited by Quoth; 01-03-2021 at 04:26 PM.