I pay for DRM-free versions of anything if it's available -- even if it's more expensive (I've downloaded many hundreds of dollars of DRM-free audiobooks). I eben refuse to buy physical books from authors like JK Rowling (who tried to force book-owners to return copies of the Half-Blood Prince that were accidentally sold early).
Here in Australia you sometimes can't even buy the DRM-up-the-wazoo version. Game of Thrones wasn't available through any legal channels for years. And that's ignoring the Australia Tax we get for not being from the US or Europe (the shipping costs of bytes is very high it seems).
Then again, I also don't watch too many films or shows these days. Mainly because I can't get many DRM-free versions.
It was quite literally getting released months after it's release in the US in the early seasons, and only on pay TV.
With the way everyone is connected online, it was ludicrous to think people were going to wait months to watch each episode and not get it spoiled for them and/or not be able to discuss it on worldwide forums.
Your average author doesn't have a choice in this, they have no clout to dictate terms to their publishers over the inclusion of DRM
And what of students with textbooks? Zero choice for alternatives there, and increasingly even the physical versions all come with required drmed additional single-use content making resale value of the book worhtless when once it was a source of a bit of extra money after spending hundreds on them at the start of the semester.
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That the bitstream of semantically meaningful content is identical appears to be the key issue. Why does it matter how you get there?
"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
I assumed it passed. Looks like it didn't pass, because of the US laws.
A savvy lawyer might argue that’s not what’s meant by effectively, but it’s at least a little ambiguous.
Buying a ebook is just for the payment.