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Originally Posted by Colt
I've only found these forums fairly recently in my research of the Sony PRS-500 Reader which I'm very interested in buying sometime in the near future. I have read quite a few threads, the arguments going back and forth for device, DRM or not, file type. Everyone seems to have an opinion on these things. What I'm curious about though is a personal opinion on what you'll do.
What will you do when the time comes where your device and its DRM books you bought are no longer supported. When your device breaks and nothing else supports them. When you can't transfer them to the newer device you bought, even if it's from the same company. What will you do?
I'd like this to not turn into a giant debate on DRM vs. non-DRM content but simply... What will you do? Buy all of those books again? Go back to paper? What? Needless to say, I think this is the biggest issue making me wary of buying an ebook reader at this point. - Colt
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What I am doing is purchasing content I can remove the DRM from and then convert to some other format so when things change, I'm not left out in the cold. It's possib;e this may be legal in the USA. But even if not, I don't find it unethical at all.