MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - DRM, or not DRM: that is the question (poll)

Xenophon · 04-09-2007, 01:29 PM

As currently worded, the poll implies that there is no available content that is current, legally purchased, and DRM-free. The only DRM content on my Sony Reader is the stuff I got with the connect store's $50 get-started deal... But every last bit of my ebook library is 100% legal. Let me repeat that:

every last bit of my ebook library is 100% legal.

And it isn't just PG out-of-copyright stuff, either. In fact, the vast majority of my eLibrary is current, paid-for, royalties-received-by-the-author, purchased-legally-from-the-publisher frontlist books.

Please, please, please, fix the wording of the poll to recognize that there are other choices out there. I admit that you wind up restricted to Baen, a couple of University presses, the National Academies Press, the National Science Foundation's press, and a few other publishers. But there really IS legal, current, non-DRM content out there.

Shame on you for implying otherwise.

Xenophon

P.S. I'm definitely not a pirate, either. And I resent the implication.

04-09-2007, 01:29 PM	#16
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,487 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	As currently worded, the poll implies that there is no available content that is current, legally purchased, and DRM-free. The only DRM content on my Sony Reader is the stuff I got with the connect store's $50 get-started deal... But every last bit of my ebook library is 100% legal. Let me repeat that: every last bit of my ebook library is 100% legal. And it isn't just PG out-of-copyright stuff, either. In fact, the vast majority of my eLibrary is current, paid-for, royalties-received-by-the-author, purchased-legally-from-the-publisher frontlist books. Please, please, please, fix the wording of the poll to recognize that there are other choices out there. I admit that you wind up restricted to Baen, a couple of University presses, the National Academies Press, the National Science Foundation's press, and a few other publishers. But there really IS legal, current, non-DRM content out there. Shame on you for implying otherwise. Xenophon P.S. I'm definitely not a pirate, either. And I resent the implication. Last edited by Xenophon; 04-09-2007 at 01:30 PM. Reason: missed one important point...