Thread: Fair Use?
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Old 06-20-2010, 08:41 AM   #137
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Originally Posted by Harmon View Post
Not in the US. If you have bought the ebook version, it is perfectly legal for you to remove the DRM. What is illegal is for someone to sell you the software to do it with. But that's his problem. If you can acquire the tools to remove the DRM, go right ahead without fear. Read the law - you will see that it is written this way.

It's just like Prohibition was. It was always legal for you to drink alcohol if you made it yourself & did not remove it from where you made it. What was illegal was selling or distributing the booze.
You need to go back and re-read the law (DMCA) again. It does criminalize the act of removing digital locks in the US.
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