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Oh don't get me wrong, Amazon absolutely should NOT have done what they did. (it cost them a potential customer - ME) But again the backlash against them was severe & if there is one thing I know is that anything that can have a bad impact on a companies bottom line, said companies will think twice before pulling a stunt like that.

Businesses are going to do whatever they can to make money & screw us over if they can that's a given. However, we shouldn't live in fear for what MAY happen & it is usually easy to avoid getting trapped/used by these companies.

I'm about taking precautions the easy way. I avoid wifi, I download & backup my books to make sure I can keep them. In this day and age it is simple enough to do research online to find out what you need to do to protect yourself. However, if you are too lazy to do so or know what you should do & can't be bothered, then I have no sympathy for you even if whatever was done to you was wrong.

Some of you prefer to go to extremes in doing what I do, even to the point of either refusing to buy books you would enjoy because of drm, or going through a whole time consuming complicated proccess to strip the drm, blithely recommending to everyone else that they should do the same.

Not everyone wants to go through all of that ESPECIALLY when they are brand new to the technology nor do they have to. I wonder how many newbies you all scared off of ereaders/ebooks all together because of your militant stance.

All I'm suggesting is a more balanced view. Is drm bad? Yes, but there are other options out there besides either not buying books you enjoy because of it or trying to turn oneself into some uber computer geek to strip it out.