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Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan
I think the best way to support non-DRM is to support the authors and publishers who don't use it. Let the non-DRM publisher's balance sheets speak to the DRM-based publishers. But that's just me and YMMV. And it doesn't mean that I won't buy DRM, just that the non-DRM winds up getting more money from me.
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I think it is just fine if the reader I choose to buy supports DRMed content as long as
it supports the non-DRMed formats I need. The only DRMed content I have purchased has been with my US$50 Connect store credit. I do not and will not pay real money for DRMed content. But that is purely my choice and my reasons may not be your reasons.
When DRM is conceived with public/private key encryption such that I can decrypt my content in perpetuity, and the decryption of that content benefits the author directly, I will buy DRMed content. It has been posted here that any such DRM scheme is doomed to failure. I think that is a failure of the imagination. See
PGP security.
1/ Would you post a purchased book on a p2p network if it contained a digital signature that pointed back to you?
2/ If you could download a free reader for
any device that was keyed to your digital signature, would you buy DRMed content for it, providing that your content could be displayed on any and all of your reading devices forever?