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Old 01-03-2021, 06:34 PM   #188
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Originally Posted by ottischwenk View Post
No - perhaps you think so.
But you bought a license for a file, that must not be changed.
It is copyright law.
There is an exception that if you are disabled, you are allowed to remove the DRM and modify the eBook to allow you to read it.

Also, there is precedence for removing DRM. When Tor decided to sell eBooks without DRM, the first eBook to be sold without DRM was Redshirts by John Scalzi. Now some eBook store had difficulty getting setup to sell without DRM and that included Amazon. Both the author and Tor gave permission for the DRM to be removed. The links to Calibre and the DeDRM plugin were given and said it was OK to remove the DRM. Also, Tor allows DRM to be removed in cases where you can no longer download a new copy without DRM.

So can you say that DRM removal is illegal when it is allowed by the publisher and the authors? It's also possible that fair use may trump DRM. It's not yet been legally challenged. So can you honestly say that removing the DRM is illegal until this has been decided in a court of law?

Read the blog post at the following link. It written by John Scalzi and it contains a link to get the DeDRM plugin.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/06/...e-re-redshirts

Now this blog post also by John Sclazi says you can format shift and share with a friend.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/06/...-and-redshirts
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