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Originally Posted by charleski
Your entire rant has been nothing more than a strawman argument. If you truly held these concerns you would not buy anything over the Internet, and you certainly wouldn't be using an insecure cloud service to store personal files.
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I think I've already explained that I use the cloud storage because I'm comfortable with the security measures I've put in place. There is a non-zero chance that my books could get stolen, but I think I've made a good faith effort to protect them.
The difference is that if someone steals a Baen book from me and an HP book from me,
one of those could be traced back to me and I would be unable to prove that I wasn't the one who loaded it to the torrent site where it was found by the Pottermore people. I'm not willing to gamble with jail time or a hefty fine just because some jerk hacked my Dropbox account.
I'm sorry that you think I'm ranting strawman arguments (am I ranting? I thought I was pretty calm over here, but maybe you know something about me that I don't...), but I think I've satisfactorily conveyed why the HP DRM is very different from, say, the Kobo (Adobe) DRM. Apparently you disagree; I'm okay with that.
