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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I edit the css of all my books. That's very important to me and I'm not going to buy any books I can't edit the formatting of.
Plus, I don't even have an eink Kindle in active use at the moment. I prefer to read on my Kobos and for that, I need my Amazon purchases DRM-free.
You may be content with owning DRM-ed copies. For me it's unacceptable. Netflix is a subscription, I don't pay separately for every single title I watch there. So your analogy doesn't apply.
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I also edit everything.and I will do all I can to preserve that option because I enjoy doing it. But losing that option seems like a 1st world problem.
Amazon would not notice if I began a principled boycott , so as protests go it's rather pointless.
I can improve on the netflix analogy: , I own hd video TV series bought from Amazon which I can't easily de drm. I'd like to, and actually I could probably do real time recordings from graphics and sound cards with software I own, but it would exclusively tie up my pc for hours, and it's just too much hassle.. it would be crazy to never buy another video even if i really really wanted it, just because the licence terms were not ideal.. There are other TV series, now totally unavailable from both legal and illegal sites, that i now wish i had bought when still on sale, instead of waiting for a rippable version to come along
No strings ttached full ownership is over rated, and ain't going to be a feature of the metaverse, if that ever arrives. Your rental agreement may then be on a block chain somewhere but it's still a rental