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Originally Posted by John F
How do you feel about people stripping DRM from licensed ebooks?
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I think that I have made it clear over the years that I have no issues with stripping DRM from ebooks you have purchased for the purpose of making backups. I was burned twice by companies dropping their support for their DRM—my horrible example is Microsoft since I did have a fair number of .lit format ebooks which I hastily stripped the DRM from using ConvertLIT after Microsoft set the drop dead date for their DRM servers. The other company disappeared with much less notice or fanfare and I ended up purchasing 7 or 8 replacement ebooks.
I do have issues with stripping DRM from ebooks which are loans whether from the public library, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo Plus or other sources for ebook loans. I agree with Apprentices Alf and Harper that that is odious behaviour.
I am very iffy on the topic of stripping DRM from epubs to allow conversion to a Kindle supported format. If reading library books was that important, selecting a device that can only borrow ebooks from a limited selection of libraries in the United States was not a bright move. If nothing else, I've seen too many times where an converted ebook has not been deleted after the loan period expires.