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Offering books without DRM is awesome, but as consumers should also have the right to remove DRM to use works in non-copyright infringing ways. For example, commentary, academic use, parody, criticism, and making backup copies.

At the moment, circumventing DRM for non-infringing reasons is illegal. Which is why Section 1201 of the DMCA needs to be fixed. Join the movement:

http://fixthedmca.org




I signed the petition and told my friends about it. Fixing the DMCA is key.




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