whenever i buy anything i try to think long term. what happens if a retailer goes out of business, do i simply lose all the books i paid for? removing the drm allows me to truly "own" the book and keep it in perpetuity. i don't trust the economic landscape nor "cloud" services.
to wrap it around to gaming, the more those publishers push for digital digital digital drm drm drm the less i buy. what do i do 10 years from now when the servers are down and the support is gone? i'm stuck with coasters or code on a hard drive that i can't get to.
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