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> I'm a serious Kindle user -- I have dozens of books. As you've pretty much concluded yourself: no you don't. Which isn't just semantics, it's pretty much th
by rickmb 16y ago
> I'm a serious Kindle user -- I have dozens of books.
As you've pretty much concluded yourself: no you don't.
Which isn't just semantics, it's pretty much the essence of DRM'ed content.
- burgerbrain 16y agoHe currently does have them, he just doesn't own them. In the future, he may no longer have them, but currently he apparently does.
- CaptainZapp 16y agoHe currently does have them Well, at least until Amazon pulls another George Orwell : http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10289983-56.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10289983-56.html
- burgerbrain 16y agoIn the future, he may no longer have them Helps to finish reading my comment...
- tsuraan 16y agoDRM isn't black and white though. Blu-Ray DRM is (last I checked) pretty good; thus I don't buy Blu-Ray. DVD-CSS is such a joke that it might as well not exist, so I buy DVDs without any problem, and I keep my DVD collection on my file server for easy access through Boxee. Kindle's DRM is in the joke category of DRM. It supposedly exists, but I have a tiny python program that strips the DRM off my kindle purchases, so I can keep backups on my file server in case Amazon decides to pull a PlaysForSure. DRM is definitely evil, but when it's trivially circumvented it doesn't bother me so much.