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Having it digitally on the internet does not mean that switch flip can take it away, having it encumbered by DRM means that. DRM free ebooks would/will never j
by miloignis 2y ago
Having it digitally on the internet does not mean that switch flip can take it away, having it encumbered by DRM means that.
DRM free ebooks would/will never just disappear! I attempt to put my money where my mouth is and buy DRM free whenever possible, and consider carefully buying at all if no DRM free copy exists.
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoYou didn't understand me. Computers need electricity, when that electricity is switched off, the entire collection of works becomes inaccessible. This can be a short-term outage or it can be a longer one in case of e.g. a natural disaster. And it's not true that "ebooks would/will never just disappear"; if you don't proactively care for the health of your storage media, they will fail; from an archival point of view most storage media will almost certainly fail in short order (years, decades at most). I have piles of CDs, floppy disks and hard disks lying around but I am not confident I can access all the data. Rather, I'm sure only a fraction of the files will still be readable.