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Originally Posted by delphidb96
HarryT,
Let's say that you have over seven score ebooks you've purchased from Mobipocket which you can read on your Palm Zire Z2 (Z22?). Let's say that you've finally gotten so pissed at the poor display quality of the Zire that you rush right out and buy the Sony PRS-500 (taking advantage of the 'sign up for a Sony credit card and get the PRS for $50' deal) and as soon as the Sony arrives, you take your hammer and reduce the Zire to bits and dust.
Now you *still* have all those (140, remember) *LEGALLY PURCHASED* Mobipocket titles. But the Sony can't open or read them.
Should you be forced to buy them all over again in Sony's .lrf format? What if nine of your most favorite titles aren't available in .lrf? Are you just going to deprive yourself of your favorite titles because neither Sony nor Mobipocket are willing to remedy the situation?
Or will you find a means for stripping the content from the Mobipocket titles and run them through BookDesigner to port them over?
That's exactly what I do. I *bought* the content of various ebooks and (I've not found how to strip from Mobipocket, but I've done numerous .lit strips.) now that I've converted to Sony (and soon to Cybook Gen3) I'm converting every single title I can to that format. Mostly I'm doing so because I can't find many of the .lit titles in Sony format and I'm not willing to wait months or years for the retailers to decide to support the Sony format.
However, if a title *is* available in .lrf, I choose to buy it rather than convert.
Derek
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Hi Derek,
I think you might have slightly misunderstood me.
It is people who
upload copyrighted material onto the internet who I regard as criminals who should be persued with the full force of the law. They are the ones who I was referring to when I stated that they are using sophistry in claiming the moral high ground for their criminal acts.
I have absolutely no issues whatsoever with circumventing DRM on books which one has legally purchased. In fact, I think it's absolutely ridiculous that this should be illegal. We just need to be aware, however, that it is technically illegal in some countries, including the UK and (probably) the US too. I suspect, though, that one is vanishingly unlikely to get into trouble for it provided it is done on books one has bought and the results used strictly personally.
Hope that clarifies my views.