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Originally Posted by nelsonescorcio
Harry, could you please name a country where you are sure DRM removal (for personnal, non lucrative use) is illegal?
Because I have - as a jurist -, serious doubts that there are a single...
I mean, to be illegal it is not enough someone saying so (even if it is a publishing house).
I am serious. Could you please name one country and the law you may be breaching if you remove DRM?
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Sure. It's illegal in the UK, as are all other forms of "format conversion" (eg, it's illegal to rip your own, legally-bought, CD to an iPod in the UK, too).
You're vanishingly unlikely to actually be prosecuted for it, but it is, technically at least, illegal. It's a breach of the 1998 "Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act", to be specific.