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Originally Posted by rlauzon
If you want this to stop, then stop paying money for eBook licenses. Stop paying them to defraud you. When their bottom line hurts because of their fraudulent practices, they will change.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Then the publishers will have won, because the ones that do infest their books with DRM are the ones that don't want to publish ebooks in the first place.
No, buy those DRM infested books and announce that you'll strip the DRM. That way they do see that you want books, but that whatever they do to protect it, however much money they invest in it, it's wasted, because people will remove the DRM anyway.
But never distribute.
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I quoted these two posts because I find myself torn in between the two sentiments.
On one hand I do not like the idea of telling publishers and authors that I'm okay with their DRM by buying their e-books (or buying the license to their e-books, whichever you prefer), the money should go to the publishers and authors that are fighting for DRM free e-books. At the same time there are publishers who are doing their best to save their hardcover industry who will undoubtedly interpret poor e-books sales as being proof that they are correct. It just seems that you're damned either way.
The best I could come up with is to put more emphasis on DRM free authors and publishers than I have been (I'm reading my first e-book from Baen), yet still strip the DRM from e-books that I just cannot make myself skip.