Thank you, rlauzon, for trying to talk some sense into these people.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
We don't purchase the books with DRM, the publishers think ebooks aren't working. The hardware makers see ebooks are not selling, they stop making the hardware. The ebook publishers stop publishing and we the consumer lose out.
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HarryT and JSWolf, you two should be deeply ashamed of yourselves. In all of the hype over ebook hardware, you two are advocating sacrificing all of the rights of owning a physical book to ensure the current commercial success of your stupid eInk gizmos and gadgets. I would rather the current and next several generations of eInk readers simply die if this kind of ebook DRM went back to hell with it. DRM is a marketing scheme, it's about security in money and money in security, and the only reason DRM ebook readers and DRM ebook stores exist today is because that's the way they've found to strangle the most money out of this market. It's a cyclical loop of vendor lock-in's and attempted market domination, instead of providing a viable mechanism for the dissemination of knowledge.
I'm not saying I know a better way, all I'm saying is that this way is *wrong*, even if it's the only way. It's important people recognize this.
Giving into this kind of marketing scheme is a slap in the face to the hundreds of years that humanity has perfected the press as a medium for the exchange of ideas and culture. If I can't lend a digital book to my friend, just shoot me, because I would be disgusted to learn that some idiots from MobileRead (under the mask of saints because of course they are "supporting the authors") decided to poison society into believing that we must all buy DRM; because to them, the present-day commercial success of their fancy schmancy eInk devices was more important than even giving a moment's thought to all of the future rights they were trashing in the process.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I hope you won't mind if I shake my head sadly in your general direction, Lauzon  . |
rlauzon, I apologize on behalf of HarryT, because he's too obsessed with prolonging God's holy cloak of protection, DRM, to even respect alternate views on this matter that he is far too ignorant to understand.
Apparently for some, corporate legality reigns over morality, culture, and the free spread of information.