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for the same reason why outright banning 'under the table' parts of an economy would actually destroy that economy, there's a lot of good that having these free
by stainablesteel 3y ago
for the same reason why outright banning 'under the table' parts of an economy would actually destroy that economy, there's a lot of good that having these free books accessible directly accounts for
the publishers who want to destroy this are essentially forcing a slowdown of information transfer and, ironically, would devalue these books in general
i wouldn't buy anything that i can't preview because i've seen too much garbage that i know isn't worth paying for, especially coming from elselvier
- musicale 3y agoI can't help but wonder if unlicensed copies of Windows and Office helped cement Microsoft's dominance. Maybe Linux/FOSS advocates should advocate for better and more restrictive DRM. ;-)
- goku12 3y agoThere are two things that helped cement Windows and Office. First was their dominance among OEMs. They were either bundled with the hardware, or the hardware had drivers only for Windows. The second was that the alternatives weren't as good at the time. It's much easier to get Linux working these days. It's more user friendly too. But that wasn't the case two decades ago. On the other hand, the conveniences of non-DRM ebooks, open formats like epub and the whole free software ecosystem is way beyond anything that the proprietary DRM-encumbered solutions have to offer. At least for me, that's enough to not even consider buying ebooks with DRM. I don't know why anyone would prefer a stricter version of the dystopia we are in.