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Originally Posted by Daithi
My guess is that most people use these tools in conjuction with the mobidrdrm tool to strip the DRM. This doesn't mean I think people are doing anything wrong. There are legitimate reasons for stripping the DRM that have nothing to do with piracy. Foremost, is that stipping the DRM allows us to transfer books we have purchased to other readers that may come out in the future. Who wants to be locked into the Kindle forever? Is this against the "law"? Yes, I'm pretty sure it is, but I try to live my life by what is right and wrong, not what is lawful and unlawful -- although I'm not admitting to anything.  |
Some proponents of DRM will point out that we're not purchasing a book to be used on a future reader, but leasing it to be used on our current reader.
True or not, having been burned by Amazon's early entre and abandonment of eBooks, and Rocket/RCA/Gemstar's vanishing act, and Microsoft's inability to deauthorize readers, unless I have no other option I will always purchase my books in an open or crackable format as a hedge against corporate planned obsolescence. I'm a re-reader and am tired of having to buy the same title over and over again for each platform when, in the end, I'm the only one reading each copy.
I guess my only exception would be especially ephemeral titles, which crop up now and then in a closed format for a price far less than an open format.