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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I thought the meaning of my earlier post was very clear:
No one "needs" a book. (Sub-point: Wanting is not the same as needing; and wanting isn't enough to justify some actions.)
You won't be fired, thrown out of your house or tossed into jail because you didn't get a book. Your family won't starve because you didn't get a book.
Therefore, if the book you want isn't legally available to you, OR if it is made available but in a form you do not accept, you have no real justification for stealing that book anyway... because, at root, you don't need the book.
The realistic, practical course is to not buy the book. The only other action that should be available to you is to ask whoever sells the book to make it available in a form that you will accept, so you can legally obtain it.
Regarding the DRM: If you are willing to buy a book with DRM, because DRM doesn't get in your way... that means you accept the book as it is offered, and can deal with DRM (whether you use it as-is or crack it), so go ahead and buy it.
If you refuse to even touch a DRM'd product, and it's only available with DRM, it's not acceptable, so you don't buy it.
It's really that simple.
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Apparently it's not that simple because there are so many that do not get it.