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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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.
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People got a lot more than just their money back in the Amazon case, they got $30.- each, if remember correctly. If you buy a stolen pbook the real owner could easily come to your house and take it back. They will if it is a valuable book. If an honest person finds out they bought stolen goods they will contact the police, anyway. Even if they lose some money on the deal.
As for your sofa analogy, that is not quite correct. Even if the store where you bought the DRMed books goes broke you can still read the books you bought there afterwards. You just can't download them again, so keep on using that sofa. DRMed ebooks don't need an internet connection after the first activation.
No misunderstandings here, I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but let us remain objective. Obviously disinfecting the files and backing up is always prudent. So, do we care? Those of us that understand these things do care and back up. Some may not care because they only read the books once.