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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Well... as you may know, I'm very outspoken about DRM on e-books. I also know a lot about the history of DRM, and companies that just left their customers hanging when they went out of business; saddling customers hundreds or thousands of euro's of inaccessible or lost content.
I once wrote a post here on MobileRead about why encryption DRM was bad, and why I would never buy content that can not be un-DRM-ed (except if I don't care to lose said content, such as some $5 play-once-and-forget games at Steam).
GoodEReader took that post, and made an article out of it, stating that it was written 'by an expert in the field of publishing.' If I remember correctly, I even mentioned that here on MR.
Since that time, GoodEReader has been marked as an untrustworthy source for me.
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LOL! Well put. In the USA one only has to watch a news agency live on air as a tragic event is unfolding. You can see with your own eyes what is happening and what is being said by the active parties involved in the incident. Yet the journalists reporting it will be reporting something totally incorrect, often not even close to what has just happened. And they are supposed to have at least a little training in journalism, although that is often questionable. So you can imagine that what is essentially a web blog with NO verifiable credentials will screw up. We have a lot of web blogs run by complete and utter idiots who do little more than mine the internet for information, never try to verify nor analyze how reliable it is, do not even have the intellectual capacity to analyze it, and yet they are posting things as if that information is true. Then other blogs start quoting the first idiots, then before long stupidity has bred an absurd level of stupidity, and people who tend to be stupid anyway are taking it as fact. Welcome to the human species...