Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
If people are foolish enough to buy a book with DRM, then find they are unable to read it later because they changed readers, the DRM scheme is abandoned by the publisher, or whatever, they are out of luck. They could try appealing to the publisher but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for positive results. However, that would not exonerate piracy. Two wrongs do not make a right.
If you do not like DRM or you cannot afford a book, don't buy it. Neither excuses stealing.
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So, breaking DRM on a book
you've purchased is now considered
stealing? Damn, I hate it when ol' Webster revises his dictionary without consulting me
.
1. I've paid the seller full price
2. I've not distributed the book to anyone else.
3. I simply chose to ignore the seller's fine print in the contract that I should only read the book while standing on my head, juggling 2 mice and a hamster.
4. The seller has not lost any profits or merchandise by my breaking DRM on a book I now own.
Doesn't seem to match any definition of stealing or immorality I know of. *sigh* Perhaps I'm just an ebul man whose moral compass needs re-magnetization
.