10-08-2010, 12:37 AM
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Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 5,187
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA
Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)
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Originally Posted by MrPLD
What's the difference between anti-DRM and militantly anti-DRM?
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Off the top of my head:
Anti-DRM:- Doesn't buy DRM'd books
- Possibly doesn't download DRM'd freebies
- Doesn't recommend DRM'd books or bookstores to friends; suggests they buy from Smashwords or Baen or FW's multiformat selection.
- May refer to DRM as an "infection"
Militantly anti-DRM:- Keeps a list of links to Convertlit, Skindle, Inept, MobiDeDRM and so on websites; shares them with anyone who expresses concern about buying DRM'd ebooks
- Acquires & provides links to bootleg versions of DRM'd ebooks
- Lobbies politicians for changes in laws to allow legal removal of DRM
- Fond of pointing out that DRM laws make doc conversion a crime, despite fact that nobody has yet been prosecuted, anywhere, for removing DRM for personal use
- Points people to Konrath's & Doctorow's blogs to insist that authorial success doesn't rely on DRM
- Keeps anti-DRM essays open on computer; copy/pastes relevant paragraphs into recurring "piracy" arguments
- May refer to DRM'd ebooks as "infected with expensive rights restrictions."
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