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Originally Posted by rkomar
Where is the honour on the other side? Do you really see this as consumers reneging on some gentleman's agreement? Do the publishers cede you legal access to your purchased e-book for your lifetime plus 70 years? The deal from the big publishers is this: give us your money and take our crappy conditions based on laws bought with our political influence or get lost. Giving us DRM is treating us with contempt. Demanding pure honour from those consumers who choose to deal with perceived robber-barons is asking for too much.
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You are not being forced to make these purchases - so "robber-barons" seem unwarranted. The old-technology paper-based books are still available (not that, even there, will you get life+70). No one is forcing you to accept DRM, not even I am suggesting you do this. If you don't like the conditions, don't accept them and don't buy the product - you don't have to act dishonourably just because (you believe) the other person does. The old tit-for-tat argument is how generational feuds get started. To say "if the other acts badly then so must I" brings society to the lowest common denominator, I'd rather hoped we were better than that. (Yes, I know that some recent history proves me wrong, but it doesn't stop me hoping.)