Thread: Argument in favor of DRM
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Old 11-08-2014, 05:45 PM   #132
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
The only problem with this scenario is that it's just not true. Most people here go with Calibre and Uncle Alf and simply de-worm (de-DRM) the books they've already bought. So all this supposed "danger" of being slowly sucked into the shady world of "illegal download sites" simply doesn't apply. This is a straw man argument. All my books are de-wormed -- all of them were bought from Amazon, or Barnes & Noble, or Google. None of my "cracked" titles were purchased or downloaded from an illegal site. I know the difference between stealing and buying.
What would you do if you couldn't de-worm your ebooks? The technology to keep you from doing that currently exists. It isn't deployed yet, but things are moving in that direction. I would not call it a "straw man".
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