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Originally Posted by wgrimm
I hope there is a class action laswuit over this- we need to hear more consumer advocacy in this market. As long as publishers can get away with the DRM nonsense, consumers are screwed.
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Theres your problem(in redneck voice).
DRM affects all of us, in every area of our modern day lives, ebooks, video game consoles, dvd, digital music, heck even some printer cartridges. It is all covered by DRM, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves, for allowing it starting way back when the first EULAs said you weren't purchasing software, only the right to loose...err use it.
A class action suit against Mobi or a single DRM'ed epublisher isn't going to do bubkiss. Eventually another will do the same thing and another because guess what if they go out of business then who are you gonna sue. That usually doesn't net you much. The answer is simple and thats to stop supporting anyone who supports DRM.
That means to never ever buy their products or content folks. Make all the DRM supporting companies feel the heat, look how many years its taken the record industry to go DRM free (Warner and EMI). It took losses in the market the likes of which the record companies (or any other sector for that matter) have never seen to get them to wake up and realize that if they didn't accommodate the customer then the customers were going to accommodate themselves.
This means you're either
- a. going to have to be a thief (in their eyes),
- b. going to have to speak with your wallet and not buy things you may desperately want,
- c. buy what you want and get what you get and dont pitch a fit when the company you bought from screws you over because John Smithx ran off with the proceeds.
It sucks, it's ugly, but what can you do. You're either buying DRM'ed materials and part of the problem, or you're not, and you are part of the solution. Either way unless someone can find a way to bring DRM and the DMCA to trial all at once, for all mediums, we are nothing but a bunch of ants biting at the ankles (various mediums) of the DRM machine, too divided to do any real damage.