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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Because it tries to restrict what I can do with legally bough content. I tries to limit the devices on which I can read that book I bought. I tries to prevent me from sharing a book I enjoyed with my wife. It tries to not let me modify my files as I see fit.
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While I liked WW's point
(which I think was that we aren't just a bunch of belly-achers wanting DRM gone so we can have what we want, and don't care about The Industry), I agree with this, too.
On a practical level, DRM doesn't impede me much, since removing it is so simple. The only practical hindrance is that I can't listen to TTS from books I download directly to my kindle from Publishers who disable it.
(curses on them for that)
That doesn't mean I don't resent the heck out of being treated like a criminal, since it is technically illegal here, although I don't think it would stand in court.
I don't like all the legalistic
(hello amazon customer discussion posters) finger-waggers scolding people for stripping it.
And I really don't like how Mobileread is forced to whisper about it.
And I don't like that those who've given us the tools to remove it could get into trouble.