title_body: Can I legally remove DRM from ebooks I have purchased if I live in Canada? I live in Canada, and I currently use a Sony Reader. My family keeps giving me Chapters/Indigo gift cards to buy books with, which used to be great when I had a Kobo reader and could get ebooks that way.
  
  However, I have discovered that the Adobe DRM that Kobo/Chapters/Indigo use for their ebooks works in such a way that it isn't actually possible for me to put those books on my Sony Reader without removing the DRM. 
  
  This is incredibly unfortunate, as now I have books that I can't read unless I use Kobo's mobile/desktop apps. I know removing DRM is, well, not exactly looked positively upon by the companies, but do I have a legal leg to stand on if I am only removing the DRM for my own personal use, once I have already paid for a copy of the ebook?
upvoted_answer: Well, according to this blog, it says Bill C-11 (Copyright Modernization Act, which amends the existing provisions of the Copyright Act) has made it illegal to break DRM in Canada. 
  
  An excerpt from the actual Bill C-11 (Section 1f):
  
  
    Bill C-11 prohibits the circumvention of any access control installed
    on a work, performer’s performance fixed in a sound recording or a
    sound recording, even if the work subject to the digital lock is
    legally acquired.
    
    The digital lock prohibitions in the Act could potentially “trump” or
    prevail over various exceptions in the Copyright Act, e.g. the fair
    dealing or educational exceptions.
  
  
  Bummer...