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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Right as usual, but I was trying to make a point about long term durability/availability. Consider how much early history of videogames is being lost due to DRM. What little that is surviving is due to "pirates".
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Ralph, in a very broad, general sense you are right, but . . . (ain't there always a but
) the games are being lost because they were available only in the one form. Few books are being lost to posterity because they are only available in the Kindle Topaz format. With rare exception, every book that is available as a DRMed ebook is available in some other form, perhaps nonDRM audio or p.