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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
You're putting words in my mouth again. I never said I wanted to restrict or limit platforms. I want to prevent unauthorized dissemination... period.
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This inevitably leads to platform lockdown and/or unreasonable restrictions on ownership.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Last time: There's nothing draconian against the prevention of unauthorized dissemination of a creator's products. If that would drive you back to piracy... it illustrates my point, and why so many others want to have digital document security. All you are defending is your right to steal.
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Actually
owning what I paid for is stealing (and I won't even mention the fact that copyright infringement is
not theft)? Unreasonable restrictions due to misguided fears of piracy are what I'm fighting against. Not the "right to steal" (whatever that means).
For a scifi author, you sure are very backwards. One more reason to never read your books (even if they were free).
As Charlie Stross
said:
Think about that. Today, publishers try like crazy to tie ebooks to a single reader via DRM, in their misplaced zeal to reduce profit leakage; but for the economic hit from piracy to equal the economic hit from libraries and second-hand bookstores and friends lending friends books, the unlicensed distribution channels would have to be shifting nine ebooks for every one that is sold commercially.
But the guy is only a commercially successful author... what does he know about books? Better to trust a 3rd rate self-published guy on the internet.
EDIT: BTW, wrt piracy, I can always download a book from the darknet and buy a paper copy in order not to rip off the author. I've done this several times already (always because the ebook doesn't exist commercially).