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I have more than 100 books that I bought with actual money on Apple's iBooks (or whatever it was called back in 2010-2012). I no longer use an iPad and would li
by sib 1y ago
I have more than 100 books that I bought with actual money on Apple's iBooks (or whatever it was called back in 2010-2012). I no longer use an iPad and would like to be able to read them on my Kindle. Because of DRM, I can't. I'm all for supporting authors and the various editors, etc., but I feel like I've already done that in this case.
- sroussey 1y agoYes, there should have been a law that required interoperable DRM. At least you can transfer movies around different services. It’s a shame you can’t with books.
- charcircuit 1y agoIf there was an actual market demand for this then Kindle could license the technology.
- sib 1y agoIronically I worked on the project to enable that cross-provider interop for movies...
- sharken 1y agoIt should be put into law, that when you buy something, you have the right to do with it what you want for personal use. In the present case, Amazon clearly states that the customer is buying a book, so it should work the same way as buying a physical book. One solution would be to buy a DRM free digital version.
- criddell 1y agoI don't see much of an ethical problem with downloading a pirated version of an ebook that you already paid for but can no longer access. If I did that, I'd have no problem sleeping at night.
- lesuorac 1y agoAfaik, format shifting for convince is legal so long as you're Anthropic. It was mostly a passing mention in the lawsuit against them where the damages are just for pirating books they didn't also buy. The fact that they bought used books and scanned them since its cheaper than ebooks was allowed by the court.
- criddell 1y agoI think the key part was they scanned the books then destroyed the originals. I suppose the analog here would be to log into Amazon and delete the purchased ebooks.
- bobbylarrybobby 1y agoI think they would've been allowed to do the scanning even without destroying the originals. AFAIK destroying the originals was just done to facilitate scanning — they needed the pages to be loose sheets, not bound.
- criddell 1y agoThey scanned then shredded the books so that publishers couldn't claim an unauthorized copy was made. All Anthropic did was a format shift which is allowed.
- sib 1y agoI agree with that
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