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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
Consumers choose a product for a reason. Price and convenience seem to be fairly popular reasons. Whether for these reasons or any other, the chosen product offers something another does not. Consumers can let companies know they want what isn't being offered by not purchasing what they have to offer. The idea that a person has to buy the product just because he wanted something similar is ludicrous. If anyone is so desparate for an ebook that he is willing to buy one with DRM, then that person is proving the company right. He is, in effect, saying, "This product isn't quite what I wanted, but it sure beats having to buy a paper book."
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So what should I do then? I certainly won't buy anything DRMed (for lots of reasons, not the least of which is that I don't want to send publishers any signal that DRM would be acceptable). I won't buy p-books because they are way too big to carry around all the time, too hard to use with one hand, way too uncomfortable to read in bed, etc. Whenever I ask an author, whose books I'd like to buy, where I can get his/her books in some unencumbered electronic format I never get any reply. So, exactly how can I get working books legally without any outside authority intervening?
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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
The music market is rapidly moving away from DRM. Not because of the EU, but because people want it.
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That's because people have experienced the downsides of DRM in music. What I don't get is that since people will never want DRM, and it's certainly never good for them, then why would EU not ban it? I see no reason why something purely harmful should be allowed.
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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
if you're caught with a digital library [...] you can't be arrested on charges of theft. You clearly haven't stolen anything.
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This out-of-context-quote is certainly true.
