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Originally Posted by Katsunami
So in the end, a few parties make big bucks with drm, some other parties are losing the same bucks because drm does not work and adds nothing, while the end result is a bunch of very annoyed customers.
Well done, industries  |
I agree. The adding of DRM for personal purchase of books is pointless. If DRM is so "easy to strip" anyway, why put it there? Several people responded, "DRM doesn't bother me because I have the tools to remove it."
I dunno, I think shelling out the bucks for a printed book or e-book, when the book is so easy (and sometimes shockingly easier) to find on a torrent site should be evidence enough that the customer is to be trusted. Smashwords gets this, at the very least, and it keeps me a happy customer.
The DRM free books I have bought sit nicely on my e-reader and backed up on calibre. I also have a few books that I bought in their infected state (before I knew better) that I was able to get removed by someone, and are now backed up on calibre. The removal was not trivial. And I don't like bothering people enough to ask someone to keep doing it for me.