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Originally Posted by DNSB
For me, the wake up call for removing DRM was in the dim distant past when one company I had purchased several ebooks from went out of business leaving me with books which I could no longer read on my computer. At that point, if there was a way to remove DRM from ebooks, I used it.
Years later (2011-2012???), Microsoft decided to shut down the servers which allowed me to read their .lit format ebooks. I was happy that I had embraced ConvertLIT (despite it's rather unfortunate short name) and so ended up losing only 2 books which ConvertLIT was unable to remove the DRM from. At that point, I made a conscious decision that if I was unable to remove DRM so I could make a backup copy, I would not buy the book. Actually, Microsoft is now a 2 time loser since they dropped ebooks from the Microsoft Store and turned off the DRM servers for those books in 2019.
I'm not worried about Amazon yanking a book. I will have a backup even if that happens again. I am worried that most ebook publishers seem to treat the purchaser as an idiot who won't care about access to their books in the future. Despite a lack of evidence that DRM reduces piracy (in music downloads for example, low priced non-DRMmed music did not lead to an increase in piracy).
Perhaps this discussion could be moved to a more relevant thread? DRM and backups is not a good fit for this thread.
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Tor has said that selling without DRM has not decreased sales.