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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'll give you an example of where DRM would have gotten in the way had I not been able to strip the DRM.
There used to be an online shop called Paperback Digital that sold mostly Mobipocket format eBooks. They did give some pretty good coupon codes which made the prices quite cheap. I did buy some eBooks from them. I was using a different computer then to what I am using now.
They have gone out of business so there is no way to update the DRM. I have upgraded my computer since I bought these eBooks and the Mobipocket PID has also changed for Mobipocket Reader (for Windows).
So, given that I can no longer change the PID nor do I have the old system I used, the DRM would prevent me from ever being able to read them on my current computer.
DRM would be the reason why. So without being able to strip the DRM, I would have lost access to these eBooks and the only way to get them back would be to go buy them again.
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Valid point JSWolf. Especially if they had customer linked DRM and no readers that could not be installed to read the file.
I see it as life as we know it though. I cannot use software that was purchased/installed on many of my previous computers or play old recordings of varius things. Probably you are too young to remeber dongles that allowed you to run your $2000+ software on one machine only and of course are not worth a nickle today.
Even my old computers are not much use today and I doubt that I would get much sympathy if I demanded to have anything at all available on a TRS-80
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Still as you say these things happen. Being a heck of a lot older probably I do not attach the same weight to losing a few ebooks. Once my house was flooded and I lost at least 2000 pbooks. And furniture and $5000 deductabe before the floors were repaired. While not trivial, stuff happens.
But I am going to take this seriously. Send me your specific complaints and I will make a database.
Names of books and original source of purchase required.
Regards
Helen