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You Can Remove DRM From Your Digital Books, but It's Probably Illegal (lifehacker.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title from the article. Interesting article, with some good words from our DRM-free favorite Cory Doctorow.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40754848

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I would if I could, but Kindles new DRM can get around DeDRM. Waiting for an update. Trying to find a new way to buy books but seems like you just get locked into someone else DRM, which may have less support around DRM removal

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Removing DRM has always been "illegal".

However: German concentration camps were legal, while families protecting Jewish citizens from being taken to said concentration camps was strictly illegal.

What's legal is not always right (ethically and morally), and what's right is not always legal. Remember that.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'd like to clarify that removing DRM does lie in a grey zone in many countries, including in the US due to some court rulings. In some countries the right to make a backup of your e-book might have priority over copyright law for example.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but companies who employ DRM have argued against that grey area since DRM was a thing. Something something IP/copyright/licensing/whatever bullshit... IMO: fuck you, I bought it, I own it, eat shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Correct... How are they going to enforce their "property" rights when I do it at home?

These corpo parasites are delulu hence why I stopped spending money on media.

Get fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

"Illegal"

Fuck them... Just do it.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

From a legal standpoint, is it more illegal to remove DRM or to just download DRM-freed content?

Meta lawyers think the second is fine, BTW.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

It's more legal to share military secrets with journalists. Don't believe me? Wait and see how long that guy ends up spending in jail.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fwiw, I've never put drm on anything I've published digitally, and never will.

Not that it matters, nobody buys my shit in the first place lol. But, as a matter of principle, even my crappy stories as a form of culture aren't only for the people with money.

Mind you, that do? I have no beef with. You make your own choices, and I ain't mad about it. But it just isn't something I can do.

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