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Originally Posted by DrNefario
The only time, in fact, that you do notice DRM is when it stops you doing something you want to do with a book you have paid for.
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Or until the ecosystem changes in a way beyond your control that makes your purchased content unavailable on your existing devices, if it's even available at all.
It's not unlikely that a change like this will happen; long-term, I think it's a certainty. The popularity of companies' use of DRM and Amazon's proprietary format baffles me - at least until I remember that almost all of today's younger generations see cloud storage and computing as innovative ideas that have never been done.
It's likely today's crop of consumers will one day be severely schooled in the benefits of local storage and ownership. Maybe only then will DRM become unpopular in general.
DRM circumvents fair use, and that's why it will die.