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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
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.
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I stand corrected on copyright.
Who exactly do you suppose is forcing people at gun point to buy books from Amazon (or whoever) ? I still fail to see how a person's choice to buy a book from a certain retailer is somehow puts that retailer in a position demand anything. Repeat after me: Just say No. If enough people actual spoke with their dollars instead of with subterfuge then publishers/sellers may actually start to adapt. At the moment they have little incentive to improve their ways, and who knows some of their silly clauses may pay off one day.