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Originally Posted by cstross
I'll tell you whatever I can.
NB: my personal position is that DRM is deeply counterproductive for working authors and publishers, and the only beneficiaries are snake-oil salesmen in fly-by-night software companies (and the rent-seeking extortionists in certain trade bodies). However, I write for a living (it's my day job) and rule #1 of being a working novelist is, "don't piss off your editors" -- so I hope you'll forgive me if I don't force the issue.
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course we'll forgive you if you don't force the issue. If you can't earn a living, we get far fewer yummy books to read! (Not that I'm self-centered or anything...
) The wording I suggested was designed to be usable even if you can't say
anything else.
Here's hoping the whole thing comes back on again!
