Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day agoI buy DRM free books off humble bundle. Even if I already have previously downloaded them. I will not give money to anything with DRM on it if I don’t have to. These authors aren’t getting money from me because they don’t offer a product I want (DRM free books). Other sources do have this product so they can blame themselves or their publisher for losing sales.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would be astonished if publishers figured out a way to put DRM on a paper copy of a book.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I should have specified I was talking about ebooks. That’s on me.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It might not be legal, but in my book, it is perfectly ethical to pirate a copy without DRM if you already own a legitimate copy (paper or DRM-inclusive)
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I’m not buying a bunch of paper books and creating unnecessary waste just to make sure the author gets paid. I guess I could donate them but then the author loses sales that way. I’m certainly not rewarding the use of DRM by paying for it.