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Originally Posted by wallcraft
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.
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You are probably right but at the same time it seemed only fair to warn someone that what they want to do is unlawful. Maybe if enough people pay attention the law can be modified to account for personal format shifting and backups.