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Lets just say that the reader of pbooks gets visually impaired and wants a large font edition. Is this traditionally offered as a free upgrade if he has already bought the paperback or hard cover?
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Not at all comparable. You are describing getting something you didn't pay for. You aren't entitled to a large print book just because you bought a small print book. But removing DRM isn't getting something you hadn't paid for. It is getting access to what you DID pay for.
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Do people who go blind get an audiobook for free from the author/publisher(I actually think they should but not likely).
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Getting a free audiobook just because you had the print book would not be appropriate, because you hadn't paid for that level of access. But removing DRM on books that you paid for isn't getting anything you didn't pay for.
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Are people without a microwave or stove entitled to have TV dinners transformed to another format?
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If you buy a TV dinner, you are entitled to cook it however you want. Microwave, stove, solar oven, grill, cook it however you want.
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Where I wonder are the thousands (or even hundreds of people) who have lost there content due to an ereader change.
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Whoever said that there were thousands of people who had lost their content? This would only happen if DRM actually worked.
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The excuse/justification for piracy is that it could happen.
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Who is advocating for piracy? Reading the books that you paid for is not piracy.
It is quote a legion of straw men you have set up.
I have never removed the DRM from a book, thus far I have had no need to do sp. I do however, reserve the right to remove the DRM from a book that I paid for if I need to do that to keep reading it.