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DawnFalcon · 01-10-2010, 07:57 PM

Yes, the self-justification involved in breaking the law by stripping DRM and breaking the law by falsely presenting your identity to sites to download books and then trying to say it's okay... just lol, frankly.

You're breaking far more laws, and laying yourself open to far nastier criminal penalties, than the people who just download from the darknet (in part because money has changed hands).

If you really respected the current law you'd not be doing that. I, for my part, simply buy second hand pbooks rather than subject myself to DRM - which is entirely legal and certainly actively destructive to publishers and authors, unlike darknets where there are arguments over the precise effect

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DawnFalcon Banned Posts: 2,094 Karma: 2682 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: N/A	Yes, the self-justification involved in breaking the law by stripping DRM and breaking the law by falsely presenting your identity to sites to download books and then trying to say it's okay... just lol, frankly. You're breaking far more laws, and laying yourself open to far nastier criminal penalties, than the people who just download from the darknet (in part because money has changed hands). If you really respected the current law you'd not be doing that. I, for my part, simply buy second hand pbooks rather than subject myself to DRM - which is entirely legal and certainly actively destructive to publishers and authors, unlike darknets where there are arguments over the precise effect Last edited by DawnFalcon; 01-10-2010 at 08:01 PM.