Thread: Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours
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Old 03-29-2008, 02:05 PM   #194
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The only DRM I would be happy with is DRM that doesn't contain any personal information, does not tie me down to one device or a few devices, does not prevent me from format shifting if I needed/wanted to, does not in any way get in my way.

Can such a DRM scheme exist? I doubt it.
Suppose there was a DRM that, yes, did some of those things you didn't like... but in exchange, any book ever written was available to you, to read on any device you owned?

Would that be worth some mild discomfiture from DRM?
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