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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
You a absolutely correct. Some years ago I bought several MP3 albums. I soon realized I could not put them on the devices I wanted to, or use them as I wished because of the DRM. I was frustrated and quit buying MP3's from the main sellers at the time. I instead went to an illegal Russian site (a form of it is still up) where I could buy an entire album for $1, DRM free and in higher (360) bit rate than the 128 WMA's sold by most places. I bought from them for about three years (even got the Beatles stuff) and had zero problems. I did not like doing it, but I vowed not to buy DRM music again.
Then a few years ago Amazon (of all places) started offering DRM free, high bit rate MP3's. Guess what? I never bought another one from the Russian site again. I buy all my music from Amazon, and feel much better about it. In the end DRM hurts the publisher/vender as well as the consumer. It will take a while, but the ebook industry will find this out as well. Companies are run with old business models, and change comes slowly.
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May I ask why you payed for illegal items? In my mind that's actually worse than not paying for them