Thread: Are libraries under attack in the UK?
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Old 10-22-2010, 07:58 AM   #18
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Retaliate and stop buying ebooks altogether. Consumers have it in their power to bring the publishers to their knees.

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You just get it lent indefinitely, indefinitely meaning a) until the DRM wanes, making your book irretrievable again; b) until the real owner decides to take away your books, à la 1984; or c) until you break the DRM and acquire full ownership of the file.
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d) until you buy a new ebook reader that doesn't read this ebook format making the book unreachable.
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