It’s the Pirate’s Life for Me!

DRM is EVIL… Remember when you could buy a book, read it and then loan it to a friend? I started buying books that way. A friend loaned me a novel, the first in a series, and I went on to buy the rest of that series, and more titles by that author. Imagine buying a book on Kindle and having a limited number of times you can access it. Imagine buying that book and being told where and how to read it. Imagine reading a book and being told you can’t loan it to a friend!

Why don’t publishers get this? You’d think the music industry’s implosion over similar controlling behavior would have taught them something. Are they so blind in their search for profits that these idiots willfully, aggressively set a course for their own destruction?

Read an excellent, but confusing set of justifications for eBook Piracy at Slashgear.com here. (Honestly, halfway through the article I wanted to go out and buy my very own Jolly Roger…)

Somebody, please talk some sense to these publishing idiots before the pirates and file sharers are distributing every book ever written!

Remove the DRM and remove an incentive to STEAL!


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