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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Even ignoring all that, the simplest rule isn't always the best to go by. Leaving products unprotected usually leads to theft... which is exactly what is happening to e-books. That is a simple fact.
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What happens is the publisher's fault. Lets say you have a K2. You have eBooks for the K2. But the eBooks have DRM. So Sony comes out with a larger screen device that you like since it's not crippled like the DX. You want it. But to be able to afford it you have to sell your K2. And you have eBooks you still have not yet read but cannot convert. So you go to the darknet to find them. And you do. And you find a lot more. So you think hhmmm... I can get a lot of eBooks for free. Now if DRM had not been there, Calibre could convert it to ePub for easy reading on your new Sony and you'd never have gone to the darknet to find out what you can get there for free. Thi sis not protecting anything. This is causing people to flock to the darknet to find eBooks that do not have DRM that are already in a format they can use or can be converted.
I refused to purchase eBooks that I cannot strip the DRM from and convert to a format of my choice if I need to. That is akin to telling me that the DVD I just bought is only playable on my DVD-ROM drive and not my DVD player.