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Originally Posted by gweeks
It's not a free replacement. It's like a bookstore only allowing you to have a limited number of books at home and the rest have to stay at the bookstore on a shelf that's just for you. That's DRM. If the books didn't have DRM then I'd agree that you backing them up is sufficient. You're required to keep your DRMed books in Amazon's or B&N's cloud. It didn't used to be that way with B&N.
Greg
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I'm not one that thinks backing up our own books is (or should be) sufficient--precisely
because of DRM. Nor one that thinks the fact that "smart people always make their own backups" (which I agree with, btw) should have any bearing on whether or not the upstream participants (retailer, author, publisher) behaved unethically.
That I took my own proactive measures to avoid being pooped on has no bearing on whether or not someone
tried to do so. That is the point I aim to make.
