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Originally Posted by taustin
Are you as offended by stores that lock their doors at night? Because if they didn't feel that you might be dishonest enough to steal from them, they wouldn't do that.
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There's a huge difference between a store locking its doors and DRM on eBooks. A store can go out of business and I still own and can use whatever item I bought from them. If a DRM bookstore goes out of business and my DRM capable device dies (depending on the DRM scheme of course) the DRM encrypted book I bought can now become worthless.
They say, locks "keep honest people honest," but I don't buy it. Honest people don't have to be "kept honest." I say that the vast majority of eBook readers
are honest and that the DRM "locks" are almost completely worthless in stopping piracy. They are
very useful in being a pain in the butt, however.