Re:The Danger of E-Books
by coldtea on Friday October 16, 2015 @11:15AM
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>I'm going to read what I want to read, when I want to read it, on my Kindle, whether Amazon wants me to or considers me to have a license or not. Basically: I don't care what the EULA states for my Kindle. It's the same attitude I have around pirating movies or shows: if a movie company won't let me pay them to let me watch a movie/TV show via Steam, Netflix, or even from their own site, then I'll just watch it on Popcorn Time and it's their loss.
Then again, if this lands you in jail, or without internet access for downloading pirated material ("tree strikes laws" etc) then you'd do care.
So, not caring might be a short-term option, but it's not a long term political stance.
Not just because of the off-chance of being hit with a lawsuit as mentioned, but mainly because this leads to even more powerful DRM (it's not impossible: there are programs that are considered virtually "uncrackable" and indeed haven't been cracked for 5-6 years, despite popular demand, usually constly pro applications using some dongle or internet based security scheme), more restrictions for legitimate users (who, for example, won't jailbreak their devices), etc.
Then again, if this lands you in jail, or without internet access for downloading pirated material ("tree strikes laws" etc) then you'd do care.
So, not caring might be a short-term option, but it's not a long term political stance.
Not just because of the off-chance of being hit with a lawsuit as mentioned, but mainly because this leads to even more powerful DRM (it's not impossible: there are programs that are considered virtually "uncrackable" and indeed haven't been cracked for 5-6 years, despite popular demand, usually constly pro applications using some dongle or internet based security scheme), more restrictions for legitimate users (who, for example, won't jailbreak their devices), etc.