[hardcastle]

VHS tapes cannot be compared to DRM-infected eBooks. They may not make VHS anymore, but I can watch the ones I own. I don't have to subscribe to Netflix just to use movies I bought and have the player for.

With DRM-infected eBooks, I lose access to my content the minute a company decides I do, on their agenda. And that's wrong. Disgusting. Indefensible.

Just because something better comes along, that doesn't give ANYONE the right to take away what I have. Even if I had the reading habits you do, I am capable of empathizing with people who use eBooks for different purposes.

The only examples you can come up with for books are Papyrus and the Library of Alexandria, which haven't been relevant since 1000AD at the latest. And unless you're claiming somebody will take away my ability to read English, I doubt your examples of thousand-year language changes will bother my archived books any.

EDIT: Lest anyone think I'm not entirely aware, I know that I'm screaming into a black hole and that Sirmaru will either ignore this post or swap to some other nonsensical, fallacy-laden defense.