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Originally Posted by Iphinome
If you can break DRM they can't force you to buy a new copy every time they introduce a new format or you buy new hardware. That's a big part of their business model, you buy the white album as a LP, then an 8-track then a cassette then a cd then on itunes (oops no drm end of the line). If they allowed fair use for things like backups you'd only have to buy something once and all those poor media executives wouldn't be able to afford 2 private jets this year. I mean they deserved to be paid for their work screwing consumers right? Not get taken advantage of by a bunch of freeloaders who don't want to pay extra to rip a cd to their ipod
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LP > cassette
LP > computer
No need for the CD or the iTunes versions. There are ways around things legally.
In the US, the DMCA is not clear about DRM, stripping DRM, and the rights of the buyer. So until stripping DRM from eBooks actually goes to court, it's unknown if it is legal or not. I do hope that if it ever did go to court, that the judge would side with the user as long as it was for personal use.