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Old 02-01-2010, 07:46 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
*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.
I too wish they werent DRM'd but to say they are worthless because of DRM is what I am arguing against!

The DRM I get on sony purchased books works for what i would use it.

the Ebook is more flexible than the HB right now.

that doesnt make me naive or stupid for being happy to go into this transaction with my eyes open and be happy with what I recieve for my Money.
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