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Originally Posted by Sonist
Actually, it goes a little further. Forget my friends. It also prevents me from letting my wife read the book I purchased - she has an iLiad.
It also prevents me from using the file I purchased for the Kindle, on my next ereader, if it does not support the DRM. This would be akin to selling books for use in your home, but if you move, you can't take them with you to the new house.
There are reasonable laws. Then there are laws which ban sex until you are 21, or prohibit alcohol, or marijuana, or sodomy, or condoms, Then there is the DMA.
If you don't have the right model and price structure, too large of a percentage of your potential customers will pilfer your product. Price it right, and most wouldn't bother, but would just pay for it. Simple as that.
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Sonist, I agree with you on this. I think the DMCA is completely ridiculous. It is not preventing piracy, it is preventing law-abiding users from taking books they bought two years ago for the Sony and reading them on their new Kindle.
So, when I bought a paperback or hardback I didn't buy "rights" to the content. Fine, but I can still read the damned book in 10 years! With an ebook, they want to charge me the same price as a hardback or paperback, and I may not be able to read it 6 months from now.
Look at the situation Fictionwise ran into with the MSReader formatted books recently. Luckily they were able to work a deal to replace MOST of the books (not all of them). I had two or three novels that were not going to be replaced. What about someone who didn't hear that this was happening, or ignored the email from Fictionwise? Now they may have completely lost access to ebooks they paid to read.
There is very little that is NOT ridiculous about how ebooks are viewed and handled legally! Thanks to the DMCA.