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Originally Posted by stonetools
And I sincerely hope that Amazon, famed for its customer service, worked with JSWolf to resolve the problem. Indeed, we did not hear from JSWolf that they simply blew him off. I wait to hear the rest of the story.
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I didn't ave a problem since I was able to strip the DRM. But if I had been unable to strip the DRM, any Mobipocket eBooks I had purchased from Amazon and Paperback Digital, I'd be screwed, There was no recompense as Amazon stopped selling the eBooks and Paperback Digital went out of business. There were lots of outcrys when Amazon stopped selling eBooks and people needed to update the DRM because they were moving to a new computer.
When Adobe stopped supporting the previous DRM for PDF, a lot of people lost access to their legally purchased content.
Mobipocket is tied to the computer. So when you change computers or even the OS, you will lose your PID and access to your content unless you are able to go back to where you bought it and put in the new PID. So there are lots of orphaned Mobipocket eBooks now that Amazon & Paperback Digital stopped or folded. There will be more unusable content now that CyberRead has folded.
These are impossible situations to solve unless you can strip the DRM. With the DRM in place there are lots of eBooks that are just disk space wasting files.
Tell me how DRM is a good thing in these situations? What happens is that people are OK with the content they've purchased until the DRM bites them in the ass. Then they go looking on the net for it without DRM. So this is a case of DRM causing a rise in eBook sharing.