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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
Having a DRM free book is not the same as having a car with no speeding laws or limits.
I'm more afraid of someone who disregards speeding laws than I am of someone with a huge calibre library of DRM-free books that they bought for themselves.
I bought a few books from smashwords which COME drm free. What are people afraid of?
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I would refer you to your DRM thread starting with post #107-et seq, especially #123-126.
One of the problems with this debate is that is really easy to see why we should put use restrictions on people who buy cars or guns, and so it is easy to point out the fallacy in the "I bought it, I should be able to do anything I want with it" argument.
Its a lot more difficult to see that without the proper protection of their IP rights, the best authors are simply just not going to write the books we love to read. You don't like being ripped off, and authors don't like it either ( and most can't afford it).
Now as I pointed out in post #109, DRM isn't perfect and could be better. Despite what you think, DRM has a purpose and it wasn't created just to annoy and inconvenience you.
BTW, if you know of another way to achieve that purpose -to prevent technologically unsophisticated consumers from freely sharing books across networks of families and friends- please post.
NO ONE on this forum -despite numerous condemnations of DRM - has ever come up with a satisfying alternative. Generally, they say authors should just suck it up and take their losses. Needless to say, authors -who have spouses and children to support like everybody else- won't go for that . (You wouldn't either).