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Barry, you do have a point. I'm sure most who have bought e-books in good faith from Microsoft would not care if they are infringing copyright in reading them, irrespective of whether they have their money refunded. Of course, Microsoft's DRM will prevent this. Their service was not popular enough for anyone to be bothered with circumventing their DRM.
Microsoft blundered on this. This is not typical of the company these days. I'm sure that most of us here could have told them that demand would be just about zero for a service where books could only be read on the Edge browser on computers and devices running Windows. To their credit they have quickly realised their mistake and appear to be treating their customers as fairly as possible.
It illustrates once again the dangers of storing your books in the cloud without removing DRM. Those Mobileread members with Nooks would do well to revisit this question now.
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