Thread: Ethics and legalities of format shifting
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Old 01-05-2021, 12:45 PM   #292
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Originally Posted by John F View Post
For those who want to strip DRM from their ebooks, I wouldn't take the above post seriously.
It is, dare I say, remarkably ignorant. The only book format I've run across that hasn't been cracked is Sony's old LRX and rumor has it that was broken but the code was never released. Sony, of course, switched from LRX to standard Adobe DRM for ePub which had already been cracked before Sony switched.

It's been well known that the analog hole is the easiest way to get around any DRM issue. From that stand point, most ebook DRM is oriented towards inconveniencing the casual user, i.e. making it so that Aunt Gertrude can't give copies of her eBooks to the members of her book club.
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