Thread: Are Fair Use Rights coming to an end?
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Old 07-19-2011, 12:22 PM   #145
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Amazon doesn't use DRM to stop pirates, they use DRM to tie people into their system (they want you to use either their software or hardware to read the books bought from them).
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Originally Posted by carld View Post
They don't do that either. Bezos has said that Amazon in DRM agnostic. DRM is required by the publishers.
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Do you believe him?
Belief has nothing to do with it. Amazon already sells many e-books without DRM. All books published by O'Reilly Media do not have DRM, such as "Programming Perl",
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pe...dp/B0043D2DOQ/
Any book with "Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited" in the Product Details listing will be in mobi format without DRM.

I bought "Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History Vol. 1
http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Jesus-Re...dp/B002OHD23E/
and copied it to my Pocketbook 360 and started reading.

Any or all of the big 6 could wise up and drop the requirement for DRM and Amazon would sell those books without DRM.
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