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Originally Posted by stustaff
But all the reasons you gave none of them were true!
you basically applied a pile of assumptions and beliefs to try and make me see why DRM isnt a good thing but none of them apply to the modern Epub DRM.
Im not saying you shouldnt check DRM to cover yourself against all the things you said but they just dont apply.
What do you feel are the risks with the Sony/Adobe etc DRM?
fact is my DRM 'restricted' Ebook is less restriceted than the actual HB that it was cheaper than.
If i buy the new Lee child HB can my family all read it at the same time? - No
Can i email it to my dad to read? - No I could post it but that would cost more money
If i lose it do i have a backup stored somewhere? - No
do you see what Im saying the DRM product I bought is better for me and thats why I am happy to pay for it with DRM
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*Sigh*
The same risks that all DRM has, in that it does nothing but adds extra layers of complication to a system that does not need that complication, and does not benefit from those complications. Take out one part of the system and it all goes down. No authorisation of your reader, your files no longer work on that reader. Software to authorise goes down, you can't authorise the reader, files are useless. Get a new computer and the software doesn't work for some reason, files are useless. The authorisation process ties your reader to the software, your books to the reader and so on and so forth. You take out one leg on this donkey and the whole burro is falling to the ground. You wouldn't accept the same ridiculous notion with a paper book, would you? Why do you accept it on a digital file?
It's 2010, am I really arguing against DRM in this very year? Is that what I'm actually doing? Seriously, I think I might have gone back in time or something.