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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Ah, so I don't have a "moderately functioning" moral compass, because I buy DRMed books. OK then. I guess I'd better run away and hide under my rock with my other hideously immoral friends, viz. Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden, and Co.
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Every time you buy a DRMed book, you do damage to consumer freedom.
You also work against the original (higher) purpose of copyright, which is to increase the amount of works of art and culture that the consumers have access to. DRM blocks and reduces access. I don't know about Bin Laden and Stalin in this respect, but I seem to recall that Hitler burnt books. I'm not one to play the Hitler card, but you brought it up apparently unwitting to the parallel.