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Originally Posted by neilmarr
The problem is, Steve, that the author and/or publisher has little control over store-imposed DRM. No matter how strongly you oppose it, they will apply it regardless.
I think the idea of compensating someone who's already paid their money in all innocence for a book of yours that carries third-party retail-imposed DRM with a free non-DRM copy is an effective way to play as fair as you'd obviously like to.
If a few more authors and publishers take the pledge as we have done, the stores might not like it ... but as far as I'm concerned, they can go take Kurt Vonnegut's famous flying f*ck at the mooooooooooon!
And, who knows, it might just make a few of the big boys think again if we protest in a way that doesn't directly hit their sales, but does seriouslty undermine their nefarious policy of DRM imposition by making it less and less effective and more and more notoriously discredited.
Good luck, Steve. I admire your stance and your pluck. Neil
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That's a good point. That's why I'm hoping my fellow Open Sourcers will be able to put the final nail in the coffin of DRM very soon. I mean, heck, just look at all the progress they made in just the past 4 years! Wow. 5 years ago DRM seemed unavoidable. Now it's getting very hard to find, thankfully. All that remains is to educate the remaining masses that don't (or refuse to) get it, or accept that DRM doesn't work, and DRM-less content is not only better, but it's more consumer friendly. Oddly though, if the trend continues, we'll be able to sort out the anti-consumer/reader douchbags from the true authors, because only the douchbags will demand, or have, DRM on their products! And when that's 100% true, you simply don't buy from them and they will in short order either see the light, or go away.
