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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
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  .
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 |
I do remember dongles. They had them back when I was a lot younger. I also remember Lotus 1-2-3 with one of the worst DRM schemes that caused a lot of businesses no end of grief.
I cannot give you the names of the books purchased as they've long since been converted to either LRF or ePub so I could read them using my Sony Reader. No idea which ones they are/were. But Paperback Digital was the store that sold them so you can put in a notation for anything bought from them in Mobipocket could be a DRM issue.
The fault (IMHO) in this case I feel lays with Mobipocket. Their software picks up the PID from a combination of your computer and the ID of your system hard drive. There is no easy (if at all) way of migrating a PID from one computer to another. Other formats like MS Reader allowed you to authorize multiple computers using the same ID. All the formats/DRM currently in use do not have such a restriction.