Doctorow can come off as dramatic but he does it for good reason... if he wrote something without the drama we'd ignore him. The whole problem with DRM is ever

Doctorow can come off as dramatic but he does it for good reason... if he wrote something without the drama we'd ignore him. The whole problem with DRM is everyone got used to it and has started to ignore how bad it can be... I include myself in the group of people who have gotten complacent. I'm good about not buying DRM music, but I put up with it with respect to streaming. And I have thousands of dollars at this pointed tied up in DRMed eBooks. At some points I've been good about stripping the DRM and making a backup but haven't done it in years now... got complacent, so it's good for him to make a big deal out of this. I'd definitely be super upset if some other companies pulled a microsoft and erased my DRM eBook library. Ironically I am pretty sure I have at least one of his books I bought from Amazon with DRM applied to it!