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Life just isn't fair.
DRM is way down on my list of life's unfairness. After all their are 8 year olds who know how to remove DRM and are IMO more mature than those who justify it by using evil, infested, virus to refer to DRMed ebooks, or refer to themselves as liberators of ebooks. The 8 year olds are mostly unaware of the implications and just do it because they can.
As a single person I pay the same medical premium as the guy in the next office with 6 dependents. I also pay higher taxes. I will reap on average less benefits before and after retirement. I should be able to share my benefits in the same way with someone else (non-spouse) legally, but it is not going to happen.
Getting upset because I cannot share an ebook with my mother/spouse/friend (which can be done legally in many ways) or because I cannot guarantee access to the book forever on any reader pales in significance. Especially as I cannot access my 8 track tapes or cassette tapes, my computer software from the 70's or 80's, LP records, videos on videodisc, on my player/computer of choice.
I cannot even access paperbooks on my ebook reader and have no recourse if they get damaged or destroyed. There is no justice.
Helen.
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