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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Perhaps, someone who is supporting having DRM on ebooks, can tell me how my buying
ebooks with DRM and then removing the DRM - leaving the ebook without DRM in my
possession - is a theft of some kind. How is the end result any different from my buying
the ebook without DRM, in the first place?
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Because the only reason you would do that is so you can upload the book to a torrent site. Haven't you followed the debate enough to know that there is no other reason to remove DRM? As the customer, you are a pirate, that's why the DRM has to be there. If you were honest things might be different, but you're not, so the DRM has to be there to keep you from giving the book away or lend it to a friend.
Good god, how did publishers survive when all they sold was paper books and they had no control over what we did with them?
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Originally Posted by teh603
You're missing one of the key points to this whole issue- that the only people actually stopped by DRM are honest users trying to do such legal things as make a backup copy in case their reader gets stolen or destroyed. Theft will still happen regardless of how tight a security you put on an ebook, but making a backup copy for your own personal use is definitely not
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And on that note, if the DRM on my books prevents me from moving them from my broken 950 to my replacement before sending the broken one back to Sony, I'm going to be
pissed.