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Originally Posted by frahse
About your Sony. Are you saying that Sony doesn't keep all your books in a cloud somewhere so it can shoot them over to you if you need them?
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They do. I am not the least bit worried about the 10-15% of my books that are from Sony.
As for my comment on paper books, that was sarcasm.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers that when VHS players came out the big movie studios were actually trying to stop them, because the ability to record a movie from TV would kill movie sales and studios would be forced out of business. Casette tapes that allowed us to record songs playing on the radio were supposed to be the death of the music industry. So was Napster.
Anyone who sells a good product will survive whatever piracy throws at them, DRM or not. Unless of course the DRM they implement is so restrictive that it prevents the buyer from using the product they way they want to use it. I have music CDs whose DRM stops them from playing in a computer's optical drive, to prevent copying them and uploading them to illegitimate websites. It also stops me from ripping the tracks and download them to my mp3-player... but all that music is on my mp3-player. I'm sure you can guess how that happened.