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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
OK, I buy that. I always, in my naivety, thought that drm was an inconvenience to me but was aimed at curtailing piracy. Funny thing is I am getting into the swing of reading a book and then deleting it. I regard the book as I do a movie I go to see.
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HappyMartin,
Sony, Amazon and the other DRM content providers want you to believe that the reason for DRM is to stop piracy. So don't feel naive that that was what you thought.
Ultimtely, they are looking at a way to squeeze every possible cent they can out of every book, tune or movie they sell. I don't know if you remember the DiVX DVD format from about 10 years back (not the current Media encoding system), its concept was to lock you into a player and then charge less for the movies, but the trick was, you had to pay extra if you wanted to watch it again say a year later. Thankfully that model flopped, it should give you an idea of what the big companies will do if we let them.
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Bill