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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
I'm not assuming anything. Most posters here talk about stripping DRM quite casually. You are literally the first person I have ever read or heard of with more than 10 posts on this site who says you have not stripped DRM. The only one. Keep in mind, in the country of residence of the majority of the people here, stripping DRM is illegal.
And that is the reason you give for not doing it. And yet, you don't have much of a problem with people who do for personal use.
Many here even talk of sharing it with family or friends casually. No one seems too bothered by this. But your average pirate doesn't cost an author any more sales than casual sharing does. Most pirates are not mass seeders. Many don't seed at all.
If illegality is the only reason you have, then you're only being very slightly less hypocritical than the rest. And on a harm level, there is little difference between the practices of most people on MobileRead, which don't bother you, and the practices of pirates, which do bother you.
All I'm saying is 2 things:
1. Ask before you start brow-beating people.
2. Examine whether your own actions and ethics give you a leg to stand on before brow-beating people.
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You misunderstand. I don't have that much of a problem with stripping DRM since post of the time you already paid for the book and just want to transfer it to another device or device that does not support the DRM. I said I understand why they use DRM. I don't strip DRM because I feel it is wrong and a pain in ass when I can buy my books straight from Amazon and read them on my Kindle no problem. More often than not they are about the same price as anywhere else. If others want to strip DRM that's fine, I don't think that most people that strip DRM are doing it for pirating purposes.
My beef is with torrenting or illegally downloading non-public domain books. As someone who writes, I think it is offensive if someone obtains my work without my permission (paying for it). If it's not OK to go to a brick and mortar store and shop lift a book, it's not OK to download a torrent of it either.