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nerys · 09-01-2007, 02:47 AM

Call me a bad person but I do not recognize DRM as legal or moral. its taking away my ownership rights to my property. When did society forget that OUR rights are "rights" and copyright is a temporary privilege (used to be at least) granted by the government. OUR rights are first because its OUR money. the ONLY DRM's books I have on my reader are the Free ones I got when I bought it. I would love to support sony and buy books but they will not sell me books and I refuse to rent or lease them. I will support them with hardware purchases because they did the right thing. The reader will accept native open file formats with NO software interaction or restriction IE just copy the files onto the memory card. Kudos Sony for this its the deal breaker reason I bought the reader.

I have no desire to crack sony's DRM because I will never have anything that uses there DRM in my possession to crack.

I guess I am a bad person I download ebooks online. So far any book I liked I purchased 100% of the time (I am a bit of a book addict) I LOVE my reader but no digital file can replace OWNING the book on my shelf :-)

My Sony reader has made me poorer :-) I have found dozens of new authors I would NEVER EVER have likely found otherwise and purchased many of there books as a result.

At $7 and MORE a pop for paperbacks (anyone remember $2 and $3 paperbacks??) I can not afford to willy nilly "buy" books and hope I like them.

Most of the books I buy I have already read on my reader and if I see something I have not read I can usually find it for my reader and not even have to crack the spine :-) it goes on my shelf. OR ebooks lets me get my fix NOW while I wait for the soft back to come out (hardbacks are soo desirable but soo expensive anymore :-(

Either way I spend a lot more money on real books now since I got my Sony Reader than I have in a long time. Its a win win win for me sony and publishers/authors.

I do however support cracking of any DRM as it RETURNS property rights where they belong. US the consumers.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

09-01-2007, 02:47 AM	#18
nerys Addict Posts: 243 Karma: 48 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: PRS 500 - REB 1200	Call me a bad person but I do not recognize DRM as legal or moral. its taking away my ownership rights to my property. When did society forget that OUR rights are "rights" and copyright is a temporary privilege (used to be at least) granted by the government. OUR rights are first because its OUR money. the ONLY DRM's books I have on my reader are the Free ones I got when I bought it. I would love to support sony and buy books but they will not sell me books and I refuse to rent or lease them. I will support them with hardware purchases because they did the right thing. The reader will accept native open file formats with NO software interaction or restriction IE just copy the files onto the memory card. Kudos Sony for this its the deal breaker reason I bought the reader. I have no desire to crack sony's DRM because I will never have anything that uses there DRM in my possession to crack. I guess I am a bad person I download ebooks online. So far any book I liked I purchased 100% of the time (I am a bit of a book addict) I LOVE my reader but no digital file can replace OWNING the book on my shelf :-) My Sony reader has made me poorer :-) I have found dozens of new authors I would NEVER EVER have likely found otherwise and purchased many of there books as a result. At $7 and MORE a pop for paperbacks (anyone remember $2 and $3 paperbacks??) I can not afford to willy nilly "buy" books and hope I like them. Most of the books I buy I have already read on my reader and if I see something I have not read I can usually find it for my reader and not even have to crack the spine :-) it goes on my shelf. OR ebooks lets me get my fix NOW while I wait for the soft back to come out (hardbacks are soo desirable but soo expensive anymore :-( Either way I spend a lot more money on real books now since I got my Sony Reader than I have in a long time. Its a win win win for me sony and publishers/authors. I do however support cracking of any DRM as it RETURNS property rights where they belong. US the consumers. Chris Taylor http://www.nerys.com/