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Originally Posted by HarryT
I know half a dozen people who've bought Kindles in the last year. They buy books from the Kindle bookstore. They read them. They've probably never heard the word "DRM" and wouldn't know what it meant if they did.
"Being burned in the future" is only an issue if you re-read books. My experience is that most people don't. They buy a book, read it, and never read it again. They aren't buying books to keep, or to collect; they're buying them as a form of ephemeral entertainment.
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So your justification for people having access to their own purchased content revoked is that they're unlikely to read it again?
That is irrelevant. It's still wrong. "Eh, they don't use their rights all that much anyway. They won't miss them!"
Great.
Even if it weren't just wrong, there are people who do re-read books, and most of us have that handful of books we've read over and over. It's still hurting people.