{"id":2354,"date":"2009-06-23T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2009-06-23T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:36:31","slug":"its-the-pirates-life-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2354","title":{"rendered":"It’s the Pirate’s Life for Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

DRM is EVIL…<\/strong> 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\u00c2\u00a0series, and more titles by that author.\u00c2\u00a0Imagine buying a book\u00c2\u00a0on Kindle\u00c2\u00a0and having a limited number of times you can access it<\/em>. Imagine buying that\u00c2\u00a0book and being told where<\/em> and how\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>to read it. Imagine reading a book and being told you can’t loan it to a friend!<\/p>\n

Why don’t publishers get this?<\/strong> 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?<\/p>\n

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

Somebody, please talk some sense to these publishing idiots before the pirates and file sharers are distributing every<\/em> book ever written!<\/p>\n

Remove the DRM and remove an incentive to STEAL!<\/strong><\/p>\n