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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Well Harry, its simple. I am voting with my money. I think DRM is an unnecessary burden around digital media of any sort. I might be willing to accept device independent DRM like eReader, but I will not use any sort of DRM that requires me to register a device; nor will I buy any works in that DRM'd format. Hopefully in time, if enough other people do the same, the publishers that utilize DRM will realize that it hurts their sales.
Mind you, I have no problem with support for commercial formats; ereader, epub, .lit and even .mobi are all fine as long as they are not DRM'd. I do plan on buying commercial works and then converting them into .fb2 or .pdfs (resized for the size of the device), I just don't plan on doing it with any DRM'd books (both because it is illegal and because it sends the wrong message to the publishers).
DRM either forces a user into a Ghetto defined by the DRM'd format (by limiting the devices a user can access their media on) or it forces them to become a criminal by stripping the DRM from the work should they want to use it on another type of device.
Either way, I am going to do my best to make sure that I don't support it.
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Bill
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It's your choice, of course, but I do think that what you're doing is a case of "cutting off your nose to spite your face", as the saying goes.
Suppose you buy a device with MobiPocket support. Yes, MobiPocket books can have DRM, but there are also numerous DRM-free MobiPocket books around, and reading those is a much more rewarding experience than reading text or PDF-format files, which is what you're stuck with on the JetBook (as I understand it).
Having a device with DRM support doesn't force one to buy books which have DRM.