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Originally Posted by Fayth
View once DVDs are rentals, and they are priced accordingly.
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Are they? One of the reasons I've never bought one is that I can find the same DVD for sale at a similar (or cheaper) price elsewhere,
or rent it from Redbox for a fraction of the price. And look at what Microsoft is/was trying to charge for software rentals on an annual basis -- their selling point was that you always have the newest and latest bugs, er, version, I meant version. Unfortunately for them, their target was the enterprise, and business managers don't get where they are by being stupid, so that didn't fly. But they tried.
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Besides, when has anyone done well with an argument against allowing consumers to reuse what they purchase?
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Okay, trade your Sony PRS-350 for a Kindle and read those books you bought from the Sony store.
What, you can't?
They're Sony-only?
And yet the vendors of DRM-locked ebooks don't seem to be going bankrupt at the moment. People -- even some people here -- are still buying what they sell: books that can only be read on one device, or not at all of Amazon decides to take them back right off your Kindle, which has happened. Whether or not they're doing well with the argument, they're doing well with the books.
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That concept is stupid as it defeats the purpose of purchasing a product.
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I agree. That's why I don't buy DRM-locked ebooks. But all but a few other people disagree with me.