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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
First off: no, defeating DRM is NOT a copyright violation all by itself.
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17 USC 1201(a)(1) says it is. For an easy-to-understand analysis, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-c...#United_States
And, just because you "bought" a book from Amazon, you do
not have Amazon's to use something like deDRM_tools to remove it so you can read the book on you Kobo.
Nobody will ever get sued for removing DRM for personal use, but that does not change the fact that it could happen, because the law is on the side of the copyright holder.
It also may never get tested directly in court, because any time it comes up, it is part of a larger case, where somebody broke DRM then distributed the copies. Proving the distribution is all that is needed to win, so the DRM breaking usually isn't litigated.
That said, I don't think there is anything morally wrong with removing DRM for personal use. I know I'm committing copyright infringement when I do it...I just don't care.