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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
Who held a gun to your head and forced you to buy DRM'ed ebooks?! You bought a DRM'ed book knowing that it was locked into that particular store. That's the agreement you entered into when you made that purchase. Why you feel entitled to modify the terms of that agreement after-the-fact is puzzling to me..
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I read what I like, I'm not about to buy a book or just settle for reading free classics that I have zero interest in, to try to force non-caring publishers to drop drm, that's just stupid as far as I'm concerned. And my doing that will have NO effect on the rest of the buying public. I'm entitled to strip drm because once I paid my money that book becomes MY property.
And please don't start with the license..blah blah blah. I don't give a damn what they think they are selling me in order to try to control me, I only care about what I know my rights are once I purchase a product.
I did my research BEFORE I bought my first reader, so I knew which stores would try to keep me locked into their brand, and made sure that I bought a reader & the only format that would allow me to keep my freedom of choice.
The music companies also tried to force drm down our throats, well we all know how that turned out. The same will eventually happen with ebooks. But in the meantime, I'm ahead of the curve by stripping drm, and enjoying the books that I like to read.
So if you want to convince yourself that you are happy to settle for old dusty but free classics and that you are making an impact on changing the minds of price gouging, manipulative aholes that run the publishing companies, go right ahead.