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It's not a huge deal if this only blocks people from accessing Adobe Creative Cloud. But this essentially blocks people who have purchased content from hundred

It's not a huge deal if this only blocks people from accessing Adobe Creative Cloud. But this essentially blocks people who have purchased content from hundreds of other parties. Adobe is the global guardian of most of the DRM-ed ebook ecosystem, controlling everything that's not Amazon or Apple. What happens if a person has bought hundreds of Adobe DRM-ed ebooks from random bookstores? They can't access _any_ of their legally purchased material? Them reading is now illegal? This is shitty situation we have cornered ourselves into. The global digital ecosystem put it's entire trust into American companies, and it's slowly reaping what it sowed. This is a good time as any to link to [Defective by Design](1) [1] https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ https://www.defectivebydesign.org/

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> It's not a huge deal if this only blocks people from accessing Adobe Creative Cloud. It is a huge deal, as remarked elsewhere in the thread, because given Adobe's near-monopoly on the graphics design market, this essentially kills several industries in the country.
- rhamzeh 7y ago
  I misspoke, I did not mean that as a whole, I only meant that in terms of the availability of legal and libre alternatives for that market (they may not be as convenient to use or available in a single package, but allow you to create roughly the same things). For books, you have _no_ legal way of reading those books. Even books by legendary freedom icons are not available DRM-Free. I encountered multiple times, last time was after spending hours while trying to purchase a certain book by an infamous author. No seller had this book available DRM-Free. It's insane that knowledge is locked behind whether a single corporation decides you're worthy of reading or not. * Situation in public libraries is not much better with OverDrive/Adobe being the legal overlords and guardians of the entire global market.

TeMPOraL 7y ago

> It's not a huge deal if this only blocks people from accessing Adobe Creative Cloud. It is a huge deal, as remarked elsewhere in the thread, because given Adobe's near-monopoly on the graphics design market, this essentially kills several industries in the country.

rhamzeh 7y ago
I misspoke, I did not mean that as a whole, I only meant that in terms of the availability of legal and libre alternatives for that market (they may not be as convenient to use or available in a single package, but allow you to create roughly the same things). For books, you have _no_ legal way of reading those books. Even books by legendary freedom icons are not available DRM-Free. I encountered multiple times, last time was after spending hours while trying to purchase a certain book by an infamous author. No seller had this book available DRM-Free. It's insane that knowledge is locked behind whether a single corporation decides you're worthy of reading or not. * Situation in public libraries is not much better with OverDrive/Adobe being the legal overlords and guardians of the entire global market.