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Originally Posted by p3aul
Why would you be for DRM free books and music if you weren't planning on copying it at some point and giving it to some one else?
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I've already explained this. Say for example I bought all my books in the epub format. But amazon through the sale of the kindle eventually succeeded in making mobi the dominant format and all future devices moved to mobi support only.
All my legitimately purchased epub and lrx files would then be useless and once my old reader broke I'd be stuck with hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars worth of ebooks that I can't read.
My current reader is a Sony PRS-505 but what if the kindle is launched here in the uk and is a huge success? What if Sony stops selling ebooks readers? Without drm it's a simple case of using Calibre to convert to mobi from epub. With drm I'm stuck with useless files I've paid for.
Music is now sold drm free by most stores, people want to be able to play what they've bought on any device they own, not be restricted to a few devices deemed acceptable by the drm provider. Is that not reasonable?
Anything could happen since the market for ebooks is still very very immature. All I want to do is ensure that my purchased books are readable in the future. I have no interest in pirating books or giving away what I've bought to someone else. If they want a book they should buy it.
I got burned by buying into Toshiba's HD-DVD format. Hundred of pounds worth of discs later and the format fails due to Blu-Ray winning the war. HD-DVD players are no longer produced, if I hadn't have sold them all I would have been stuck with unplayable movies if my player ever broke down.
DRM DOES NOT STOP PIRATES. They either remove it or find a way round it. Legitimate customers who however don't know how to do this are stuck if they ever want to say go from a Sony device to a Kindle.