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What gets me is we use these past examples as reasons to just accept the inevitable. We have become the audience in the first Apple Mac commercial. We have turned into Zombies. |
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You could always remove the DRM if you feel that strongly about it. It's easy to convert Mobi books to ePub and vice versa once you're done that.
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MobileRead doesn't allow anyone to point people to unlock programs. Can you PM me? I still believe this is an issue we have to fight but this will soften the blow. |
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A Google search for "MobiDeDRM" should get you going. I will say no more than that.
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I fight back by refusing to boy DRMed ebooks and try to get people here and in other places to do the same...
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I am not going to knock your approach and do find it admirable. However, if all the bestsellers and books that are important to the people purchasing books are in DRM then how can it be stopped? Even with sites that allow one to grab non DRM versions not enough people will follow this suggestion. I won't if those sites have illegal copies and not paying the publisher. I am not going to steal a product to make a point. The better choice is to not buy ebooks or music, etc until DRM is resolved that benefits all parties. But then we lose out on having an eReader. Another tact is to raise our voices. This does work.
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so is it illegal to remove DRM? even if you dont share them and only read it on one device?
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Depends where you live. In some countries it's "technically illegal", but as long as it's for your personal use and you don't tell anyone, who's going to know?
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That would depend on the laws of the country you live in, but, at least in Western Europe and Northern America, usually removal of DRM is either completely verboten or heavily restricted. In Denmark, for example, it's legal if if you own the file, and you need to remove DRM in order to access the content, but as a general rule it's not legal to remove DRM or break copy protection - even if it is legal to make copies for your own use.
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I don't dispute that fact or supposition. My point is this debate which I started about who has the exclusive agreements clouds the issue of DRM. Even if Adobe doesn't have exclusive use contracts does not mean they can't do this in the future. Also changing to ePub doesn't mean this is the end of the DRM changes. Something in the future will appear and we will again lose our libraries to the new DRM.
I wrote an email to customer service on the Mobipocket site. The Amazon response asked if I was satisfied with the answer. I click the link to say no I was not. I sent another response to that link. Remember Jeff Bezos apologized for deleting the Orwell eBook and offered compensation. If everyone here wrote a strong but respectful message to Amazon then they just might wake up. They do respond to their customers but at the moment we have been silent. Speak up!!!! ![]() Of course if the agreements are secret then we really don't know if the Adobe / iRex agreement is boilerplate or something more exclusive with Adobe. Last edited by timezone; 09-07-2009 at 10:17 AM. |
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Future products have nothing to do with the agreements or formats that a current product supports. If the future color reader doesn't support the format you need, then don't buy it. You're not entering into a lifetime guarantee from iRex that every device they produce is going to support Mobipocket.
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BTW, you do know that it's very easy to remove the DRM from your Mobipocket books? |
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At least that's my interpretation of it. Last edited by Shaggy; 09-08-2009 at 12:57 PM. |
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