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Originally Posted by Penforhire
By some of us. I'm not nearly as harsh on Steve as some of you. His fundamental concerns are valid. Content creators deserve to be paid when their content is experienced.
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And where have I said that content creators don't deserve to be paid?
If people like Steven got what their way, consumers would lose big time. I don't want to be restricted to a single device/platform, and abstruse authentication requirements (not to mention the possibility of DRM-server shutdown). I want to
own what I purchase.
And if ebooks don't allow that, I'll go back to pbooks. Or bittorrent...
Once again, I refer you to Charles Stross, a really good scifi author (unlike SJL), who makes mostly the same points that I do.