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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Could you tell me please what countries? With references if at all possible?
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There is an overview in
Wikipedia: Digital rights management, although it is US and Europe centric. The DRM laws all stem from the WIPO Copyright Treaty, which means that it will become illegal in many more places over time. The issue of anti-circumvention exemptions (e.g. for personal use) is murky, even inside the US where "fair use" is well established and there is currently an explicit exception for some ebooks (
DMCA: Anti-circumvention exemptions).