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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
It's simple enough to me. Buy ebooks with no DRM. Don't buy ebooks with DRM. Vote with your wallet.
There's a slim possibility at some point DRM comes up against the DMCA and we win in the court system...but who knows. The higher courts are often aligned with big business too.
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I don't think DRM will come up against the DMCA. If that was going to happen, wouldn't it have happened with music when there was still DRM on that?
Honestly, I think it's going to take the same thing that it took for music to go non-DRM: some (large-scale) big player has to go first. I remember eMusic was DRM-free a long time before Amazon (which was the big watershed event, I think), but I doubt we're going to be able to count on Amazon this time around. They haven't shown a lot of bravery when it comes to going toe to toe with the publishers.
It certainly won't be Apple.
It could possibly be B&N, I guess.
(Yes, I know Baen doesn't have DRM, but mention Baen to the average book consumer and they look at you a little like this):