• Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    I saw someone on YouTube pissed that they bought 700 ebooks from Amazon and now that they enforce a harder DRM he can’t read them anymore.

    Bruh, you voted with your wallet to get DRM in your ebooks. You can’t complain if one day they change the encryption

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      7 hours ago

      I fully believe that if you paid for something, it gives you the right to go pirate another copy.

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      8 hours ago

      The vast majority of the public hsve no idea what you just said.

      Their brain goes “I like book. I buy book! No more book? But I buy book!”

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        6 hours ago

        I agree, but I also sort of think that’s fair enough. The fact that most people “buying” ebooks don’t understand what their transaction implies suggests a major market failing.

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      8 hours ago

      With Amazons pending change to not allow ebook downloads, I downloaded all mine. I then tried to convert them to epub format and a little over half converted. I only have 80 though, I can’t imagine doing that for 700.