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Old 10-27-2009, 08:12 PM   #24
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
Elfwreck - No. All you are doing by buying DRM'ed books is encouraging them to continue with DRM. Breaking DRM means not buying DRM'ed books, and letting people know it's because of the DRM you're purchasing other options.
I don't buy DRM'd ebooks.

I've downloaded some freebies, but I mostly avoid even those; just too many hoops to bother with. (I read on three computers and a Sony Reader, and under some circumstances, a Clié. It's hell to get everything synched across the DRM servers.)

The only DRM I break is locked PDFs; I tend to crack them so I can crop the margins out, add tags, fix the metadata & add bookmarks. (If I'm particularly inspired, I save 'em out to Word and reformat from scratch. But I have to really care about the content for that.)

But for those who do buy DRM--if they want to keep access to it, they'll need to decrypt it. Because the companies who sell DRM'd content have proven, over and over, that they stop supporting it as soon as they think it's not profitable enough. Which sometimes includes "when the software has been upgraded and the old content doesn't work on the new software."
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