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Originally Posted by gmw
Buying and then breaking makes no statement at all (except a poor one about your ability to keep your word), not buying because you don't like their terms makes a statement.
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I don't break my word.
But that's only when I give it in the first place.
I do not consider a unilateral demand being imposed on me to me by some other party to be the same thing as giving my word. For example, if a mugger says "your money or your life" I do not feel obliged to give him my money if I can find a way out of it just because I chose life. Are you arguing that you would do so?
I should mention, by the way, that I don't buy DRM-restricted ebooks. But I argue with publishers' astroturfing at every turn. People who repeat publishers' lies -- "our demands are your agreements" and "copyrights are exactly the same as trademarks" -- are not my friends.