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Originally Posted by HansTWN
And all those who had the book removed got their money back and were even rewarded with something extra. Not a bad deal for those involved, but we will hear about it again and again until the end of times.
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I don't find it a good deal, and we should keep hearing about it.
To be honest, I find it repulsing that people can lose stuff they paid for so easily.
If I buy a paper book at a store somewhere, and later it is discovered that this store should not have been selling this book, then they'll just stop selling it. Nobody is going to get into my home to take the book off the shelf, put some money in its place and give me a coupon to buy a bag of fries as an extra.
If an ebook-store goes broke, one loses access to any book that was not backupped and de-DRM-ed. What would you think of a DRM-ed sofa (to make sure no more than 3 different people are using it), with built-in internet connection? The store where you bought it goes broke, and you lose access to the sofa; in other words, it sprouts pins on the seating or something.
These examples sound ridiculous, but it's exactly the way I see DRM and dependency on an internet connection to be able to use your media. In th non-digital world, everybody would say that such a dependency is idiotic, but in the digital world, people seem not to care. I find that astounding.