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If a user were to be able to remove DRM from a ebook purchased from an e-bookstore leveraging ADE, they would then be breaching the compliance with an end-user license agreement or a customer license. On ebook.com's customer license page, they mention the following: "You promise to keep any eBook in the form in which it was supplied to you. We may include other information (including information identifying the author, the copyright owner, or the terms upon which the eBook is supplied) to any eBook supplied to you. You promise not to circumvent any measures that we have taken to protect the rights in the eBook that we have supplied, including removing this information or otherwise facilitating an infringement of copyright".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Customer License |url=https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/information/customerlicense/ |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250612001054/https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/information/customerlicense/ |archive-date=12 Jun 2025|access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=eBooks.com}}</ref> Although no lawsuits have been found being documented (as of writing this article), the door for this kind of consumer abuse is still present.
If a user were to be able to remove DRM from a ebook purchased from an e-bookstore leveraging ADE, they would then be breaching the compliance with an end-user license agreement or a customer license. On ebook.com's customer license page, they mention the following: "You promise to keep any eBook in the form in which it was supplied to you. We may include other information (including information identifying the author, the copyright owner, or the terms upon which the eBook is supplied) to any eBook supplied to you. You promise not to circumvent any measures that we have taken to protect the rights in the eBook that we have supplied, including removing this information or otherwise facilitating an infringement of copyright".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Customer License |url=https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/information/customerlicense/ |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250612001054/https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/information/customerlicense/ |archive-date=12 Jun 2025|access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=eBooks.com}}</ref> Although no lawsuits have been found being documented (as of writing this article), the door for this kind of consumer abuse is still present.


In 2014, the Electronic Frontier Foundation had published an article regarding how Adobe Digital Edition was tracking its end users by logging what the end-user reads and what happens to those files.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McSherry |first=Corynne |date=7 Oct 2014 |title=Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/adobe-spyware-reveals-again-price-drm-your-privacy-and-security |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/cbuNx |archive-date=5 Jan 2026 |access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=EFF}}</ref> This data was also being sent in plain-text undermining the privacy of the users.
In 2014, the Electronic Frontier Foundation had published an article regarding how Adobe Digital Edition was tracking its end users by logging what the end-user reads and what happens to those files.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McSherry |first=Corynne |date=7 Oct 2014 |title=Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/adobe-spyware-reveals-again-price-drm-your-privacy-and-security |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260222203055/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/adobe-spyware-reveals-again-price-drm-your-privacy-and-security |archive-date=22 Feb 2026|access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=EFF}}</ref> This data was also being sent in plain-text undermining the privacy of the users.


==Consumer response==
==Consumer response==
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In the Abbey House Media v. Apple Inc ruling on an ebookstore notifying users of how to remove ebook DRM, a judge has ruled that telling users to remove DRM from books they have legally purchased is "not contributory copyright infringement".<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 Nov 2014 |title=Abbey House Media v. Apple Inc |url=https://www.eff.org/document/abbey-house-media-v-apple-inc |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251010154102/https://www.eff.org/document/abbey-house-media-v-apple-inc |archive-date=10 Oct 2025|access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=EFF}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Higgins |first=Parker |date=10 Dec 2014 |title=Pointing Users to DRM-Stripping Software Isn't Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/pointing-users-drm-stripping-software-isnt-copyright-infringement-judge-rules?language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250708194122/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/pointing-users-drm-stripping-software-isnt-copyright-infringement-judge-rules?language=en |archive-date=8 Jul 2025|access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=EFF}}</ref> The summary of this case being that the removal of DRM protection on books in non-infringing cases of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not necessarily lead to the piracy of digital books.<ref name=":3" />
In the Abbey House Media v. Apple Inc ruling on an ebookstore notifying users of how to remove ebook DRM, a judge has ruled that telling users to remove DRM from books they have legally purchased is "not contributory copyright infringement".<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 Nov 2014 |title=Abbey House Media v. Apple Inc |url=https://www.eff.org/document/abbey-house-media-v-apple-inc |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251010154102/https://www.eff.org/document/abbey-house-media-v-apple-inc |archive-date=10 Oct 2025|access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=EFF}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Higgins |first=Parker |date=10 Dec 2014 |title=Pointing Users to DRM-Stripping Software Isn't Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/pointing-users-drm-stripping-software-isnt-copyright-infringement-judge-rules?language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250708194122/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/pointing-users-drm-stripping-software-isnt-copyright-infringement-judge-rules?language=en |archive-date=8 Jul 2025|access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=EFF}}</ref> The summary of this case being that the removal of DRM protection on books in non-infringing cases of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not necessarily lead to the piracy of digital books.<ref name=":3" />


An online persona known as ApprenticeAlf, has also gone ahead to create a tool to remove DRM as well from multiple forms of ebook DRM, not only Adobe's.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=10 Sep 2012 |title=DRM Removal Tools for eBooks |url=https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/NHxJp |archive-date=5 Jan 2026 |access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=Apprentice Alf's Blog}}</ref>
An online persona known as ApprenticeAlf, has also gone ahead to create a tool to remove DRM as well from multiple forms of ebook DRM, not only Adobe's.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=10 Sep 2012 |title=DRM Removal Tools for eBooks |url=https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/ |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260222203220/https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/ |archive-date=22 Feb 2026|access-date=29 Mar 2025 |website=Apprentice Alf's Blog}}</ref>


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