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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
That's an entirely different thing. If I buy something, when I get it home it's not illegal for me to open the packaging and utilize the contents as I see fit.
A store having security measures to protect as-yet UNbought merchandise is perfectly reasonable.
It's different than buying something, going home and even after you've bought it, it still won't come out of the box.
That is what DRM does to paying customers. It treats them like thieves even after they've said "hey I am not a thief. Here is my cash or credit card number!"
Even sites which sell DRM-free books have "in-store" measures against the downloading of such prior to when the paypal or credit transaction has been received.
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Aha, this is a common argument. As I've been told many times, copyright infringement is not theft. But it is a form of property offense: an offense that can only occur AFTER you have acquired the property.
I can legally buy an ebook without committing theft: but then I can strip the DRM , post it on my pirate web site, or distribute it to all my Twitter followers. That's copyright infringement.
Copyright infringement measures, by their very nature , can only work (if they work at all) AFTER you have acquired the item.
If you follow your argument (" I bought it, I should be able to do anything I want with it" ) to its logical conclusion, the notion of copyright itself would be illegitimate. ( A poster named Giggleton argues precisely this ).