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Originally Posted by Iphinome
and you can be sued for $200-$2500 for each ebook you strip the DRM from
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It has never been tested in US federal court whether striping DRM from ebooks you own (i.e. bought from an ebook store) for your own personal use (e.g. using a different ebook reading device) is a protected fair use or not. As a practical matter, this isn't behavior that is likely to ever result in a legal action (how would the copyright owner know, and why would they care?).
This is different from making the copyrighted ebooks available for others to use without authorization, which is certainly unlawful and could have serious consequences.