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Old 02-25-2009, 10:48 PM   #33
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BTW, I am really puzzled why ANYONE would purchase a proprietary DRM-ed book, which will go up in smoke if they change hardware vendors, or the company which sold it went belly up and was not benevolent enough to, or was prevented from, unlocking the files?
I've been buying Sony DRM and haven't yet seen a downside to doing so. Assuming that the company goes under, or they change something, I'm pretty confident that that there will be cracks developed to break the DRM anyway - and nobody would really object to much to it, as there wouldn't be much point. But, that aside, any books I currently own would still be readable on the device that I downloaded them for. (And if I ever upgrade to another device, that can't read what I've already bought, I'm not about to throw out the old device - just in case I do want to re-read something.)

I'm not really sure how, realistically, using DRM is preventing me from doing anything I'd like to do with my eBooks - either now or in the future.
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