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Hopefully people will finally learn their lesson about buying DRMed stuff.... but I doubt it.
by magduf 7y ago
Hopefully people will finally learn their lesson about buying DRMed stuff....
but I doubt it.
- elliekelly 7y agoAnd even once they’ve “learned their lesson” what do you propose they purchase instead? The non-DRM alternatives are often no where near as convenient, if they’re available at all.
- mratzloff 7y agoI buy physical copies. In the cases where I buy digital media, I strip the DRM. I also support DRM-free vendors, like gog.com. You can't depend on companies to honor their agreements in perpetuity, especially when there's no direct, ongoing economic incentive to do so.
- DavideNL 7y agoWell having your book collection suddenly deleted is not convenient either... So, the alternatives: 1. Buying a real/paper book 2. Pirating/illegal downloading The best option seems doing both, you support the author by buying the real book, and download a pirated copy for convenience.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoDRM-free eBooks aren't actually all that hard to find, though it varies by publisher. There are plenty of publishers who sell all of their books DRM-free. And plenty of larger platforms like Kobo tell you at the bottom whether it's a DRM-free EPUB or has Adobe DRM attached, etc.
- tssva 7y agoMost people are probably excited to be getting refunded for books they have already read.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoThat's not the point of a personal library.
- bubblewrap 7y agoWhat if they didn't care about building a personal library, but only wanted to read a couple of good books? Would you say going to the cinema is also a waste, because you can not keep the movie you watched?
- scardine 7y agoProbably the refund does not account for inflation, though. 500 dollars today may not have the same purchase power of 500 dollars a few years ago.
- doingmyting 7y agoYou'd need to factor in depreciation of the already purchased product as well which makes this point moot
- B_Throwaway 7y agoYes, I am always disappointed when the unexpected refunds for things I considered worthless don't account for inflation.
- bubblewrap 7y agoI'm aware of the issues, I just decided it doesn't really matter. It is rare that I want to read a book twice, or that somebody wants to borrow a book from me. Rather than wasting storage space for books, it is probably more efficient to rebuy books when I want to read them again. Or bet on ebooks.