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Interesting how your grand principled stand doesn't inconvenience you in any way. Now, you could choose to not read books that don't meet your high moral bar f
by unmole 3y ago
Interesting how your grand principled stand doesn't inconvenience you in any way.
Now, you could choose to not read books that don't meet your high moral bar for distribution. But screw that, you can have your cake and eat it too!
- marcus_holmes 3y agoYes, I agree. But I don't see any other way around it that works. Publishers need to stop doing this, or we end up in a world where everything is rented. They will only pay attention to what affects their revenue. I repeat: I'm happy to pay for books if they're DRM-free. It's not like I'm pirating everything because it's free; I'm happy to pay for it if I can actually own it.
- nicbou 3y agoDo you block ads on your computer, or avoid the internet altogether?
- unmole 3y agoI pay to skip ads wherever that's an option. I do use an ad-blocker because ads are annoying. What I don't so is pretend my ad-blocking is a grand crusade for privacy.
- izacus 3y agoOh no, poor inconvenience exploiters and profiteers, why won't anyone think of the rich people?!
- unmole 3y agoYeah, screw the author who actually wrote the book and the publisher who financed it. Only the freeloaders and parasites matter.
- Qwertious 3y agoI've taken a principled stand against Crunchyroll and Kindle - the result has been basically dropping reading nonfiction books and watching anime as a hobby for over a decade. Who does this benefit? Self-flagellation is not a moral imperative.