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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
If you remove the DRM protection, you are creating copies of copyrighted material. The license you have does not allow you to do that.
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If I download a book from Amazon and create a copy of that book without removing DRM, that is equally copyright infringement.
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
You buy a non-exclusive license, which the copyright holder can revoke in any minute. You can buy a bottle of beer, but it does not mean you'll keep it forever and can replace it if it expires. Copyrighted material cannot be bought via retail, using the word "buy" for obtaining non-exclusive license is just a figure of speech without legal consequences.
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Buy is not just a figure of speech. The jurisdictions I checked give it a very specific meaning in a court. Perhaps we need a law even more restrictive than the "
terms “buy,” “purchase,” or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good". See
California Assembly Bill (AB) 2426 (Chapter 513) for more about this.