Thread: People who want no DRM are impractical dreamers...
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Old 03-18-2011, 11:31 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
DRM does not protect the user. No DRM can ever protect the user. There is someone on MR who has an iPad and bought 10 eBooks from Apple. He wants to sell his iPad and now his eBooks are useless. DRM made them useless. So instead of being able to use them on a non-Apple device, he has to eat the cost. He cannot convert t hem or use them as is. How is DRM good for the user in this case? How is any DRM going to protect the user in a case like this? I see nothing good from DRM for the user.
I never said that DRM in its current state does anything to protect the user. What I said was there NEEDS to be a happy medium that does. I didn't think that it was TOO cryptic of a statement, anyways. I don't like that I'm unable to resell/loan/etc MY ebooks to someone else. *This needs to be addressed.

*Does not imply that this is the current case, rather a necessity for future revisions.
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