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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
We appear to be in (what seems to be to be) a crazy situation, where you are at risk of imprisonment for a criminal offence if you purchase a book and strip the DRM to read it more comfortably, while being only at risk of a civil suit for not paying at all and downloading from the darknet.
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I'm not sure that this is the case in the UK or the US. It seems clear that in the UK, distributing or otherwise making available de-DRM software might be a criminal offence, whether for profit or not. I didn't find (or I didn't understand) any section that made the removal of DRM for personal use a criminal offence.