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Originally Posted by taustin
The fact that you are apparently incapable of using the term "DRM" without following it with "scam," which serves no purpose whatsoever other than to be inflammatory, tells me everything I need to know about how seriously to take your posts.
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I think of it as descriptive rather than "inflammatory". As to our postings,
I could just as easily question the motives of someone who so staunchly
defends these DRM scams.
I would put these DRM scams as in the same class as the extended warranty
scam. Except that they are in a position to require their particular "DRM",
which is less about Digital Rights Management and more an attempt to
restrict the use of the books, to be only on their dedicated ereaders and not
anyone else's. They are quite happy to allow you to read these "protected"
ebooks on PCs and tablets, and provide applications to do so, but not on any
other dedicated ereading devices.
They provide the authors and publishers little or no protection of their digital
rights, and provides some support to an attempt to capture the ebook
readership, something in their interest, not the authors.
As to the booksellers/proprietary DRM creators avoiding $0.22/ebook, if the
DRM "lock" is a requirement of the publishers - wouldn't the $0.22 come out
of their cut, not an expense for the bookseller?
Luck;
Ken