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Old 05-20-2009, 07:27 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by p3aul View Post
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?
Here is a true situation where DRM has come along and bitten people on the ass big time.

Let's say you own a Kindle. Now you've purchased a subscription to some newspapers and blogs. Current issues do expire after a while and are not longer able to be downloaded from Amazon. You archive the issues you want to keep on your computer. That's all well and good so you can reread them any time you want. Your Kindle develops a fault while still under warranty. Amazon sends you another Kindle. This other Kindle has a different PID. All that subscribed content you've purchased and saved so you can access when you want is not totally useless as the PID of those files will not work with the replacement Kindle and because they are no longer available at Amazon, you'll never be able to read them again.

Does this sound like a good thing? It's not. It's all the fault of DRM. If they had been files without DRM, they would have worked on the replacement Kindle. This is just one situation that has happened to people and none of these people were going to share the files, they just wanted to be able to access them on their Kindle which they now no longer can do.

Ok, here is another scenario. You have say a Gen3 that happily displays Mobipocket format files. You accidentally break the screen and on top of that, it is no longer under warranty. So instead of sending it in for repair, you decide to see what other devices are out there. You decide you want a device that supports ePub so you decide to purchase a Cool-er. The Cool-er does not support Mobipocket. No problem you think. I'll just use Calibre to convert my legally purchased content to ePub and I can then have my content back. Wrong, DRM is in the way and prevents this from happening. All that unread legal content is now just wasted money. Why? BECAUSE OF DRM.

Here's yet a third situation. I have a Palm device that is using eReader. No eink devices support eReader. So I decide I want a larger screen eink device to use to read books with. Does this mean that because of the DRM, I cannot convert my content to work on my new device?

And in neither of these examples was DRM in the way so the files could be shared on the net. The DRM was in the way to allow people to read the files they legally purchased. Now can you see why DRM is bad?
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