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The purchasers are issued a refund in the form of a gift card. So, if you purchased it and DRM stripped it then you get to keep the comic and get the refund! E
by jiggy2011 14y ago
The purchasers are issued a refund in the form of a gift card. So, if you purchased it and DRM stripped it then you get to keep the comic and get the refund!
Edit: Looks like you don't
The point I am more worried about here is that we are actually reliant to an extent on piracy and DRM stripping in order to preserve abandoned works.
- Tcepsa 14y agoThe refund appears to only apply to "Unused JManga Paid Points". If you used your points to <strike>buy</strike> license manga, you will not be getting a refund for them. (edited to replace "buy" with "license")
- InclinedPlane 14y agoThis is a big problem with the web as well (the transfer of data may be distributed and redundant but the hosting of it is not).
- jiggy2011 14y agoTrue, but at least with the web we have archive.org and other archiving efforts. With DRMd ebooks there are legal and technical measures in effect to try and prevent archiving.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoArchive.org is great but it's at best a very, very incomplete solution to a huge problem.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThat's true, but physical archiving has it's challenges too. I think there's an important difference between something being hard because it is and something being deliberately made more difficult that it needs to be.
- ChrisClark 14y agoThe refund is only for the points you haven't spent yet. If you 'bought' something you will not get the money back and you will never get to see it again.