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Originally Posted by HarryT
With all due respect, I think the best way to "fight" DRM is not to buy from those publishers who use it. Buy books from those publishers "enlightened" enough to sell DRM-free material. Buying DRM-protected books and then removing the DRM sends entirely the wrong "message" to the publisher.
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If we were to stop purchasing eBooks with DRM, should we then go back to purchasing pBooks instead? Should we give up reading what we enjoy reading because of DRM? Is DRM going to dictate to us what we can and cannot read?
If we let the publisher know in no uncertain terms that we do not want DRM and we will strip it if you use it, then maybe they'll get the message that it's not actually working and stop bothering. But if we just stop purchasing DRM infected eBooks without informing the publishers just what we are doing, all that will happen is they will think eBooks do not sell and won't bother. So we'll be the ones to lose out. Before there is a boycott of any kind, we HAVE to let the publisher and the eBook shops know that we WILL NOT be purchasing eBooks as long as they have DRM. And to prove this, we also MUST purchase more eBooks that are sans DRM.
This means no Sony eBookStore, no Amazon.com, no library withdrawals, etc. So if it has DRM and you would have purchased it, then informing the publisher and vendor who is selling (if different from the publisher) why you will not purchase is what we'd have to do instead of just stopping the purchase.
Or We could just purchase eBooks like we do know and then contact the publisher every time we purchase an eBook where we strip off the DRM to format shift/protect our investment that we have done so. Let them know that their locks are broken and the key has gotten out and been copied.
I would go for the second option since the first option prohibits me from content I do want to read that is infected with DRM. The second option allows me to read what I want while letting the publishers know that their locks do not work and that to keep using them is a waste of money.