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Originally Posted by afa
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that perhaps your 'protest' isn't quite up there with the likes of Parks, Ghandi or MLK. Fifty years from now, people aren't exactly going to be reading in the history books about Iphinome's fight against the evil of DRMed ebooks. I dare say stripping DRM, or arguing that books/music/movies/whatever else are overpriced, isn't quite as significant to humanity as fighting racism, fascism, oppression or tyranny. But, hey, maybe that's just me.
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I wouldn't bet on it Afa, the fight for the rights to consume information might be as important in the coming years. Mr. Jordan already saying that we are not buying books, but "license". I say no way. I bought the book it's mine. I buy the car I can sell it next day or 10 years after, my wife can drive it and so is my son. I want these rights back on all the stuff I own and the people who get that back will be remembered.
I don't want Toyota telling me that the engine block design in my car was just licensed to me only and I am taking money from hungry Toyota CEO children mouth by trading my car with this design in it. I don't want McMillan doing same either.
Nobody is advocating piracy as an only way to distribute creative work, not that I read it in this thread anyway. So please stop building a straw man.
But many pointing out the roots and extenuating circumstances as to why we sometimes forced to it.