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Originally Posted by R J Askew
Hmm, forgive me i am just an idiot Englisman, but what is the problem with DRMs? are they not there to serve the writer's interests? in which case, what is wrong with that? and as H says above they can be got round by the sound of things. As an author, I wld accord amazon a AAA rating for devising a wonderful revolutionary too for tearing down old publishing. But creative work should be paid for should it not? A person who buys a pbook can't give it free so a million people as somone online cld. So surely the little author who wants to make a cent as I do needs some bar on his or her work being simply taken as free to anyone who pays a dollar for it. If an author wants free exposure they simply don't opt for DRM. I salute Amazon for allowing DRM. What is the case against it?
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DRM only benefits Amazon (and other ebook reader sellers with their own book shop). It is there to tie readers to one device and to ensure they only buy their ebooks from one supplier. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors designed to con people into going along with it. DRM does none of the things its proponants claim it does.