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Originally Posted by Sgt.Stubby
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.
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The point I am trying to make is that you seem to believe DRM is a moral issue. It is not.
I believe playing the Hitler card is justified here, as I am comparing
DRM != moral issue
murder/genocide == moral issue
Thank you for noticing the
Nazi book burnings. I specifically consider that to be
everything DRM is not.
Generally speaking moral issues deal with matters of, um,
morality,
e.g. Thou Shalt Not Kill, Thou Shalt Not Steal, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery can be regarded as moral issues for (I hope) obvious reasons. Your objection against DRM is a contract dispute.
I am not an "immoral person" because I buy a DRMed book, regardless of the original or current or even exalted purpose of copyright. Burning someone else's books is a moral issue. Agreeing to buy books that, for the sake of analogy, come with a built-in self-destruct, is not a moral issue.
You are perfectly welcome to only buy non-DRMed books, and that is fine. You don't want to buy something that you don't feel has value.
As for me -- I have paid for something I feel has value.
I have not taken away any of
YOUR rights in doing so, thus there is a distinct lack of a morality-or-otherwise factor.
That may hinder your ability to buy non-DRMed content in the future, but you are not owed books. So again, where does morality enter into the discussion?
As for "works of art and culture", that is a matter of some dispute
but even so, art and culture is not morality, and in any event it will take care of itself.
I am also reminded vividly of BWM publishing and their claims to be in it for the culture. I suspect your motivation to be equally selfish.
The Richard Stallmans of the world are priests of their their own religion, and I suspect many MR members would like to say something about religious madmen, but then we'd have to continue this in P&R...