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Originally Posted by speedlever
I don't wish to rehash stuff that you guys already know (but I don't).
I'm just learning a bunch of this stuff while waiting for Christmas and my K3 to arrive.
When you d/l a book from Amazon, exactly what do you get (assuming it's a DRM book)? I've only d/l a couple of things from the library as a test thus far, so I really don't know how this works.
Point to me a FAQ or thread that explains this if you will so we won't clutter up this thread anymore with newbie stuff.
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exactly what you get from Amazon you really need to hassle Amazon. You will get various people's interpretation here, but up-to-date detail that you can rely needs to come from the source. Anything that is not absolutely clear keep hassling them until it becomes clear.
Without speaking for others who obviously disagree with me on some important points, I believe the main justifiable objection to DRM is that you are subject to the whim of the seller. Too many of these sites have "we can change this agreement at any time" clauses, so what they tell you today may not be true tomorrow.
Once you buy a paper book it's yours and only it's being stolen or destroyed will stop you being able to read it. With a DRM protected book you need to be able to unlock the book to access on a new device (if your old one breaks etc etc), usually by contacting the sellers site. What if that site shuts down (see this
thread) ? What if they have a change of policy? What if they are bought out by a company with different objectives?
The main protection you have from big sellers like Amazon is that really nasty policy changes produce such a public furor that they can, sometimes at least, be persuaded to be more reasonable. I leave it to your imagination to how they may operate if purchased by certain other companies. (As an exercise you could all pull out your Windows licences and study some of the implications.)
Do a google on "I Hate DRM" to get a swarm of objections, some related to what I have just said and some are other details.