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Originally Posted by TGS
DRM stripping is fine but it boosts sales of DRM'd ebooks and therefore allows publishers to carry on believing - or not believing but claiming - that DRM is not an issue for the majority of the ebook buying public.
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Exactly. I am not going to vote with my wallet in favor of something which is against my own best interest.
True, it's a very small wallet. I'm what the chairman of BP would call a "small person". A water drop is a small thing, too. But get enough of them together and you end up with the Grand Canyon.
We are the Little Folk—we!
Too little to love or to hate.
Leave us alone and you’ll see
How we can drag down the State!
-- Rudyard Kipling
Friends don't let friends buy DRM-locked ebooks.
Since I said that, I've seen it turn up in at least one .sig here. Use it on other forums -- get people to ask you what you mean, and why. Point them at sites that sell DRM-free books. Our wallets may individually have very small votes where the big publishers are concerned, but get enough of us together, and they'll have to pay attention.
How many bad things, I wonder, existed and continue to exist because people think "I can't do anything about it, so I'll just go along with it"?