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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Unfortunately, too many people are willing to trade convenience for their fair use rights (imho).
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That, too, is the consumer's choice. (And yes, in this situation, I think it's a bad choice too.) Fortunately, in a healthy market, there are usually multiple vendors that cater to different buying desires, and if vendor A doesn't sell the books you want, or in the format you want, there's always vendor B, C, and D. Amazon is the one huge monkey wrench in this machine, but it hasn't become the only online bookseller yet.
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
My personal practice is that I will not buy DRM'd books or music and as far as I can practically avoid it, I will not purchase a reading device that supports DRM (Though I am not going to toss my Jetbook if they start supporting a DRM'd format with a firmware update).
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I don't have as much problem buying hardware that
supports DRM... as long as I can bypass DRM'd content and load non-DRM'd books onto it. In the case of a company like Amazon, I think if you bought a Kindle, then
did not buy any of Amazon's DRM'd content, they would get the message.