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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
Unfortunately, you're not correct. The DCMA made removing digital locks a criminal offense. The fact that no one is enforcing it doesn't mean it's not a law.
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The DMCA also said that no fair use rights were being removed by the law, which is in direct contradiction to many parts of the act as written. In most of the cases that have been decided, federal judges have ruled that DMCA trumps fair use but there are no ebook related rulings (there are, so far as I know, no end-user fair use rulings at all). There is very little doubt in the US that if I buy a DRM-free ebook I can legally read it on any reading device I own. This is a protected fair use, and the only question is whether DMCA removes this right for DRM-ridden ebooks or not. Note that UK law, for example, does not allow you to read DRM-free ebooks on any device you want. This is a right that has been granted in the US, but not everywhere.