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Originally Posted by Ea
Heh, I bought a geographically restricted book from FW just this afternoon.
Very shortly; copyright law is a good thing, though the current life+70 is far, far too much, it only favours those extremely few authors whose fame last more than 5-20 years, and it restrict fair use far too severely.
If I see a book for sale at FW, I find it extremely frustrating that I cannot buy it just because I don't live in the USA, but since it's so easy to circumvent, I might buy it anyway. It's 'wrong' but not 'wrong' enough not to do. You are Danish, you know how we tend to wait for green light at traffic crossings, even if there is no cars? This feels less bad  In this case, I am paying - not paying is morally worse. I also strip the DRM, but from what I can read at the site of the ministry of culture ( http://www.infokiosk.dk/sw9430.asp), this might be within the intent of the law, if not the letter. |
I doubt that you will be put in front of a judge for this crime
I does feel much more legal when you have paid for the privilege of reading a book. None the less it is just as much a breach of copyright law to remove DRM as if you found it in the deep cellars of the internet.
https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms...aspx?id=117519
kapitel 6 a (§§ 75 b-75 e)
There is a fair use exception, but it is very specific, and probably not relevant if your reader is compatible with the DRM in question.
Danish copyright law is an almost verbatim copy of the US DMCA and I think it should be rebuild from the ground up. It makes me a criminal even though I don't feel like one.