Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
by scarface74 on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:56PM
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Amazon’s books contain DRM. iTunes music that you bought within the last decade was DRM free and could be played and backed up anywhere. Apple couldn’t “revoke” DRM free music that you backed up.
Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
by awayfromhomenow on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:41PM
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not all of Amazons books contain DRM. There's a big movement (mostly authors of Baean Books, afaik) that ask that the books be published DRM-free.
Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
by WalterBright on Monday October 07, 2019 @08:25PM
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The people who publish books on Amazon have the option of them being DRM-free or not. The books I publish on AMZN are DRM-free.
Re:Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
by ryukafalz on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:13PM
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Anything published by Tor Books as well. (Us sci-fi fans are lucky!)
Generally, if the book I'm looking for is sold DRM-free, I'll buy the ebook for convenience. Otherwise, I'll go look for a used paper copy.
Amazon discovered they didn't have the rights to a book in Canada and deleted it off people devices. The book? 1984.
I think the iTunes issues have been fixed, but it's still stupid to not have your own backup independent of stuff accessible by "cloud" services.
I buy everything I can off bandcamp and download it to my machine. I occasionally buy off Amazon music, but I really hate it when that's the only option an artists has and would prefer to buy/rip a physical CD at a show. I keep my music on a 512GB microSD card (crazy these things exist now) and I always keep my own backups of my own content; buy DRM free whenever I can on Gog/Humble over Steam.
I prefer to have things I own, not licenses to software and content that can be revoked at any time.