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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.
It IS that simple.
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In a so-called free market, supply and demand help shape the products being sold. If people buy products in spite of the fact that those products don't suit their needs (ie. non-DRM ebooks) then there is no incentive for companies to do anything different.
By purchasing a DRM'ed ebook what you are saying is that the DRM issue has a lower priority than the ebook format. In these instances, the presence of DRM was not enough to prevent you from spending your money.
I dislike DRM'ed media. I'm not a criminal and I don't like being treated like one, and I'm certainly not going to pay for the "privilege" of being treated like one. So I don't buy DRM'ed media.
But unfortunately, many of the people who feel the same way about DRM, buy DRM'ed media anyways and then strip it away... which undermines the power of the consumer.
Having said that, I know that my opinion is in the minority.
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When you buy from any online store there is no "Official" notification that the material is locked to your device. In most cases DRM is not something that the average non technically aware purchaser knows about. When I buy a novel, I am paying a fee for the novel, I am neither paying for, nor inviting technology to be added that limits my potential enjoyment of that novel. It is why there is no law against DRM removal, it is a marketing ploy, not a legal requirement.
I don't bother to remove it as I have no need, I don't use other devices. If I decided to switch to another reader, to use something other than a Kindle, I would not hesitate to strip all protection from my library. It is similar to my purchasing of music CDs. The first thing that I do is strip any protection - if it has protection - and load a high fidelity copy onto my media centre. I do not play CDs, I no longer have CD player as part of my music system.