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Originally Posted by HarleyB
My thoughts exactly.
I strip DRM from all my legally purchased books. I started doing this when it looked like Borders were going to go belly up and I didn't know what would happen to my books. Since then I have purchased the occasional book from Amazon and so I format shift those as well.
Does that mean every book I "own" is pirated?
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I wouldn't think so, but to many the issue of piracy isn't entirely about money - it is also about asserting control. Not in some bigbrothery sort of nefarious control. More of a supply chain IP sort of contol. Buying anything DRM is more akin to renting the digital item. We will let you borrow it until the day you die as long as you store it where and how our DRM schema specifies.
Had there been the technology to make it impossible to read a paper book purchased at Borders within a Barnes and Noble, or vice versa, don't think for a second they wouldn't have at least considered imposing that sort of content restriction for one purpose or another.
That being said, I personally don't have a problem with my purchased content containing DRM. I currently only read on my kindles and I can move them around easily in that ecosystem. I'm not offended, as some are at the very existence of DRM in my files. I only care when it affects my ability to read that which is still my property.