Thread: Kindle store: Indies avoid DRM to reach wider audience
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Old 08-14-2013, 06:11 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
You are breaking the law if you are driving 51 in a 50 km/h zone. Breaking DRM (which isn't even illegal in many places for personal use) is a similarly "evil" offense. I understand what you are saying and generally agree with it. But since I can read what I want on the device I want and archive my ebooks I prefer this option to not getting the books I want just to take a stand. Call me pragmatic, I wouldn't buy ebooks if I couldn't remove DRM. Amazon can remove the books from a Kindle (if you sync with the server!), not from my Kobo. But even if I had a Kindle I could just reload the books I have removed the DRM from.
Pragmatic in the same sense when you download a book illegally that you cannot buy. I think that is exactly the same as driving 51 km/h in your example.
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