Originally Posted by HansTWN
DRM is a royal pain in the you-know-what for the publishing industry's loyal and honest customers. Will that persuade stonetools and his publisher buddies to get rid of it and suddenly start becoming customer friendly? Of course not. He has made it very clear, they want to sell a new copy every single time a book is being read. That is the reason for DRM. So if you want to move a book from your Sony to your Kindle, buy a new copy! Who cares about customers?
And will stonetools convince us that DRM removal is "totally and completely evuuul"? Now that's a laugh. We will just have to raise the issue again and again to raise awareness that customers are being taken for a ride by the industry until there is a backlash. And teach as many people how to strip DRM as we can. Time is on our side. The more people buy infested ebooks the more will run into trouble with DRM sooner or later and will get angry at the industry. The only thing the industry has going for them is that the vast majority of ebook buyers really have no idea what they are buying and what can go wrong for them. We can change that and are doing it here.
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