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Originally Posted by dacattt
That doesn't solve it in the long run. Their books are DRMed to a specific device and a specific computer. In a few years you will have upgraded both. Having that backup, without doing something classified illegal, you still loose what you purchased.
So, all that backing up does, is delay the time in which Amazon does just take your book away that you have paid for. You loose either way, and retroactively they are taking the book from you because they changed their minds after your purchase.  |
The issue of DRM can't be separated from the issue of backup. As someone who's lost music due to DRM because it couldn't be migrated from an old computer to a new one, I should have also included the step "remove the DRM" in my post about archiving.
Funny that people who are complaining about Amazon "taking away" their books are unwilling to take the necessary step to protect those same books. After all, you
are claiming that they should be yours in perpetuity, aren't you? Removing the DRM merely to be able to create an always-usuable copy of something that you purchased shouldn't cause loss of sleep or moral qualms.
