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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
DRM doesn't treat everyone like convicts anymore than locks on houses or cars do so, or security tags in libraries and stores do so.
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Your analogy would hold true only if when I would buy a car the dealer would keep the main key, and lock me out when they would go out of business or consider the car suddenly unethical. They tread me like a potential thief by refusing to give
me full access to the products I buy from them, that's rather different than me preventing access of others to products I buy.
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And your decision not to buy books with DRM is a political decision. It's fine as it is, but 99% of the book buyers select books that they *want to read* and don't really care about DRM.
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Since you state it that definitive, I am sure you have a source that supports the number you mention. Annocdotical, only one of the persons I know that has an eReader buys DRMed material without a blink; the others either don't buy or strip as soon as they have the file.