Thread: When is Sony's DRM going to be broken?
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Old 09-05-2007, 07:55 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm sure that it is accepted as bring OK for private use. The original question (quite a way back now) was whether one could change the format of an eBook in order to re-sell it to someone. That's what I'm saying you can't do, any more than you can, say, buy a commercial music CD, copy it to cassette, and then sell someone that cassette.

Format shifting for private use I have absolutely no issues with whatsoever. From a purely practical viewpoint, any laws "prohibiting" it would be completely unenforcable.
Cool, I was just beginning to get the impression that you were opposed to any type of format shifting, period. Re-selling is, of course, a separate issue.
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