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Originally Posted by Piper_
I've tried to think of a reply that would be short, polite, and doesn't repeat what's already been explained and ignored, but I can't.
With all due respect, I think you're either:
1. Terribly ill-informed due to being unwilling or unable to comprehend the facts and points shown through several threads.
2. Informed or intelligent enough to grasp the facts that have been given to you through several threads, but hope to smear honest people and hoodwink observers.
Whichever of the two it is, I'm going to trust that most people who come to this site won't be deceived by it.
/a person in a multi-device family, (Sony, kindle, and nook) who cannot share ebooks with them without stripping DRM. And one who knows that people were indeed harmed by Amazon's and others' changing DRM schemes, unless they had non-drm'd backups.
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Well, I love you too.
I'll just skip to the end to vaporize that strawman so beloved of the anti DRM crowd- the mythical multi device family that just CANNOT share ebooks without stripping DRM.
First of all, we have to wonder why the Multidevices did go ahead and buy different dedicated ereaders without considering the difficulties of sharing ebooks. Where they that clueless, really? Don't they get to pay a stupid tax? Do they also own Linux, Windows, and Macintosh PCs? They're gonna get a hell of a surprise if they try to share files and applications. Just sayin'
OK, so they all bought different readers without any forethought, because that's how the strawman is built. The Multidevices must surely have at least one PC in the house. If so, there are PC applications for Sony, Kindle and Nook so they can read each other's books on the PC.
Do the Multidevices have tablets, smartphones or PMPs? No problem-they can download apps and share accounts and libraries on those devices.
No PCs, smartphones, or tablets, but three different kinds of ereaders? Hey, I can go to that
reducio ad absurdum too. They could-and I know for the digerati, this seems really insane- just physically LEND their ereaders to their other family members. After all, they are all family, right? And in the olden days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, people actually handed their physical books to family members, thus depriving themselves of the books for a time, till the borrower gave the book back. Lending ereaders is precisely analogous to lending pbooks, old school.
So there you have it. Family members can share ebooks in several different ways, without violating DRM or the federal copyright laws, as is your wont. You don't have to choose to violate the law if you don't want to.
I hope this lays to rest this zombie argument for all time-though I doubt it
