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Old 02-09-2012, 03:14 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by CyGuy View Post
No, DRM is like having tiny little locks on every book on your bookshelf at home with the requirement to call Amazon (or other) and ask that they kindly remove the lock so you can read the book.
It's worse than that.

Amazon DRM is like having tiny locks on your books, and you can only read the books at a reading table provided by Amazon that has a key attached for the locks on your books. But if you buy another Amazon reading table, you'll also need to ask Amazon to send you another set of your books with locks that match the key attached to your new table. And make very sure you don't try to read a book intended for one reading table at another reading table, as the key there won't unlock the lock.

And if one of your reading tables breaks, all the book for that reading table become useless, and you have to get new copies from Amazon to go with any new Amazon reading table you buy.

And, of course, Amazon books can't be read at a Sony reading table at all.

If it wasn't for a certain apprentice (Alf by name) who can tell you how to remove the locks entirely, I wouldn't be buying any ebooks from Amazon.

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