[andyafro]

I believes it's wrong the way DRM linits your choices. ok copyright is good but once you have purchased your book or music it should be yours to do with what you want.

There should be a program that allows a person to use what they have bought with any device as long as it can be proved they have bought it.

The problem is the tecnology is moving faster then they music industry or the ebook one. This is what happened when people started sharing music over the net it became not about what you could find but what you couldn't find but wanted.

This is the same with the ebook industry people are starting to take notice but there's not enough books out there. you see a book you want but you can't find it anywhere other then on some torrent site or other websites, all you wanted to do was read that book (same as listen to that song you have not heard in ages thats not in the shop anymore)
but you being branded a criminal for finding it even though its not been made available.

And what happens when that file format is not longer available like your bbeb files you get from sony connect, they useless when the format is finished but the fact is you paided for them isn't that in it's self fraud (the book is yours till we decide you can have it) to me i would rather get it in ms reader format and break it into html that way i have a copy of a book i paided for and is rightly mine.

I say let go of the DRM and let trusted websites and buisiness run and regulate themselves and concetrate on shutting down the websites that don't.

Fact is you can put as much DRM on something as u want but you gonna lose cos someone will break it eventually and it has to be that way because at the moment it's not fair.

Maybe and special hard drive would be good a portable one that only lets your books on it, as long as they on this drive they can be used as you please. off the hard drive they would have restrictions. that way its with you plus if books had a watermark (like mentioned in earlier post) these books could be tracked back to you making you reponsible for your copy. With out the need for DRM. i mean your ebook reader must come with a code that registers when you buy a book like on connect.

It's time for something new because the music industry history has shown that drm doesnt work. people will find a way to get what they want.