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Originally Posted by miguel1626
I'd rather read a though-provoking author, like Greg Egan, instead of a reactionary hell-bent on "protecting" ebooks that no one wants to read anyway.
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On the contrary, it seems SLJ has provoked a great deal of thought. In this particular thread, you actually come off as more hell-bent than SLJ. I know you want to fight the idea of restrictions (as do I), but your past couple of posts have had increasingly anti-SLJ tones rather than anti-restriction tones. Are you so sure that simply because someone doesn't agree with the EFF that their fiction cannot be enjoyable in some way? Your last few comments almost make it sound like you wouldn't read an author with whom you disagree. If that is accurate, what is the point in provoking thoughts you have already had?
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Originally Posted by SLJ
Agreed.
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It doesn't seem like we agree. You seem to want to retain the right to put your own lock on my copy, and not give me the key to that lock. There has never been a DRM regime that does not infringe on a users' rights to use the software and/or hardware of their choice to read their copy where they please, and there never will be. No DRM scheme is going to be released to an open source software project, from which a lot of great software comes. Not every closed source, freeware project will be able to afford to integrate various DRM schemes. Some schemes will be left behind, locking users' content in a useless format forever. A file that phones home won't be available during power outages (my power just came back on after 16 hours post-storm, a not uncommon occurrence) and DRM server shut downs, and activation issues have already robbed me of too much content I paid for and time trying to make it activate, often with no recourse. Only an unlocked ebook file will grant me my full expected rights as a reader.
Unlike some others, it doesn't bother me that we disagree, I just wanted to point out, in light of your response above, that we do seem to disagree pretty fundamentally. If you contend that your lock won't interfere with the rights I demand as a reader, I believe you misunderstand what rights I demand.