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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Nor am I going to lamely try to retcon my decision to knowingly violate terms (for purely selfish reasons) into some kind morality-based Civil Disobedience obligation/exercise.
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I had to look up "retcon". I didn't know what it meant. Great word!
I never mentioned retconning (I hope that is a valid word too!) anything. You can read my actual words in post #80 of this thread, but they are:
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So the sellers pushing these unethical restrictions are probably resigned to the fact that many of their customers will respond with reciprocal unethical behavior and remove the DRM and copy the files anyway.
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Notice that I used "unethical" in describing both the initial behavior, and the response. That is certainly not retconning, as I understand the definition of this new word (new to me, at least!) My subsequent posts in this thread have been intended to expand on my statement quoted above, including examples supporting why I think this type of customer response is expected, and why I no longer chastise people for it. I was not championing any kind of morality-based civil disobedience. Just stating my opinion on why I believe people download and strip DRM from eBooks even though TOS say they shouldn't.
You have implied (but not stated directly) that you yourself strip DRM from eBooks, even though you also state that you have no issue with Amazon's current practices and terms. I don't chastise you for that. I wouldn't go so far as to say I condone it, not in a public forum, but I do consider it prudent. So much so that I might even imply that I might consider doing the same thing myself.