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I can fit every book I own in my jacket pocket, read them whenever I want, wherever I want, annotate them, search them, lookup words in the middle of them, what
by reificator 9y ago
I can fit every book I own in my jacket pocket, read them whenever I want, wherever I want, annotate them, search them, lookup words in the middle of them, whatever I need to do.
Or I can buy a single book that takes up more room than my entire library combined. No thanks.
As far as DRM goes, people are going to pirate it, and I'm not. But I also don't want to pay money to get a worse, more limited experience than those who pirate it. If the DRM prevents me from doing things that would be trivial for a pirate, something has gone horribly wrong. Yet that's our standard now.
- taway_1212 9y ago> If the DRM prevents me from doing things that would be trivial for a pirate, something has gone horribly wrong. The "solution" is to pay for the legitimate version and then get the pirate anyway. I often do that with stuff that can't contain malware/viruses (such as movies and tv shows).
- unkown-unknowns 9y agoIt's sort of a solution but still it's breaking the letter of the law no matter how we feel morally about "pirating" something we've already paid for. I'd rather see more authors/publishers make DRM-free editions of the product in the first place so that I don't have to break any laws in order to make use of what I've paid to have access to. I am willing to pay a premium rate for this.
- reificator 9y agoI'm not going to pay money to justify getting the free version though. How about we as a society realize how backwards this whole system is and just drop DRM?