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Originally Posted by Morpheus Phreak
Yes I am talking about several different products, as are you. That's the point.
I can make a different comparison then if you'd prefer.
Darn I lived in England for a while and bought some movies, and then moved to China and bought some more. Now I live in the US and the movies I bought in England and China will not play on my DVD player I bought in the US.
Now I have to buy something else to be able to play these movies that (in the end using your logic) are the same product. I should be entitled to have this work in all areas all over the world, on any player I buy with no strings attached. I shouldn't have to buy different players or different copies of the movie. It should just work because I said so.
The point being if you buy a Kindle copy of a book, it's meant for the Kindle.
I bought the Kindle KNOWING what I was buying and KNOWING that some titles will have DRM, some will not, and that the AZW format was not going to work on non-Kindle devices. I can read the books on my KK, my KF, my Windows Phone, my PC, and my laptop. I honestly don't have a reason to worry about not being able to read the book somewhere.
If someone doesn't like the Amazon ecosystem, then I question why they are even here complaining about it in the first place. They should be using a different reader that allows them to do what they want.
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Yes, I do think region coding is a major consumer rip-off. Those poor people in Europe are being taken for a ride, as usual. It should be illegal. That is why the first thing I did to new DVD players is making them region free.
But you keep forgetting a few things. First you and I and some others bought our devices knowing about those drawbacks (and I definitely won't buy any books whose DRM I cannot disinfect) but a lot of people have no idea. And second, you don't have a choice. It is their way or the highway. Fortunately we can get back what is ours with some minor surgery, but again, most people are stuck.