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Originally Posted by Egghead
It presupposes that someone would want to read a DRM'd book.
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Oh! Well why didn't you just say so? Now I understand what you're saying.
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Originally Posted by Egghead
Why does the epublishing industry want to prevent me from putting the titles I've purchased onto a portable device? I'd like to be a good citizen, but this behavior on the part of the industry encourages piracy.
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That's getting into the e-Babel issue, which is a huge can of worms.
I found myself wondering the other day when the music industry (not the same thing, but it's related due to DRM) shifted from just wanting to get anyone they could to hear music so that they would buy what they enjoyed, to wanting to make sure they get paid
every time
anyone heard
any song, whether they liked it or not.
Somewhere along the line, that shift occurred, and it's only made things nasty and painful for all concerned.
