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Originally Posted by notimp
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I don't know about self-censoring threads or being kept silent by moderators, because I haven't read any other of your threads. Your complaint may be legitimate, or not. I don't know.
In many countries, removing DRM or providing tools to remove DRM is illegal. That is the reason why DRM is only discussed lightly here, and removal options are only hinted upon, such as "Search for Apprentice Alf". Nobody here wants to have complaints filed against the forum for providing a way to pirate e-books.
That will probably be the reason moderators don't let you say anything you want about DRM; not because they want to censor _you_ in particular, but because they want to keep this forum up and running.
If an organization such as BREIN (the Dutch anti-piracy organization, founded and funded by, mainly, big movie/book/music publishers) comes after you, you're history. MobileRead is not in the Netherlands; it's in Canada, IIRC, but they probably have anti-piracy organizations there too.
This forum is not the place to fight against DRM; it can only make people aware of it and the negatives of it, so people can go and research this. Then they can either learn how to remove DRM, or decide to buy DRM-free only.
But dude... with regard to DRM, you're preaching to the choir here.
God knows I've actually had some warnings because I go as far as forum rules allow with regard to DRM; and sometimes farther.
I for one, can tell you that I never buy anything that has unremovable DRM. I buy DRM-free stuff, or stuff where DRM can be easily removed (EPUB's at Kobo, social DRM). I don't buy books at Amazon, precisely because they refuse to use EPUB and keep changing formats from MOBI to AZW3 to KFX (and they even have others).