Stupid DRM

Curse you DRM for limiting my selection of books based on my choice of reader!

Curse you DRM for making it complicated to purchase books from any seller other than the maker of my device!

/endrant

I second that acursement.

If you come up with a good curse that works, pass it around. :)

The only curse that is known to work is: Stop buying products from companies that use this sort of thing and tell them why you're doing it.

You're buying the product so should be able to use it how and where you wish.

My reader isn't locked to DRM.. I can put several formats on it. I am cursing the fact that several books I want are ONLY available in a DRM locked format from a certain online mega retailer.

Regarding DRM, a nice explanation why DRMs are evil, useless and not even economically viable :

http://www.natesebooknews.com/2010/03/13/why-drm-doesnt-work/

6, I've seen something similar for why people pirate movies but not seen that one before. Thanks for sharing.

With rare exception (or if the book is a freebie) I refuse to buy secured format books. No open format=no sale for me. There is just way too much free and low priced open format content out there to be bothered with high-priced and restrictive DRM. I think (I hope) it is just a matter of time before the publishers get a clue.

There's a wonderful critique of DRM from Peter Serafinowicz here, based on the fact he illegally downloads his own movies. FutureBook questions if DRM (or rather, the absence of) means google is going to win the ebook war. I'm not entirely on board with that, though that's partl due to personal prejudice against cloud computing. If I purchase an ebook I don't want to lose it because Google had a glitch in the mainframe (like Micrsoft did with the T mobile data0), or because Amazon suddenly realised I shouldn't have been able to purchase it in the first place.

I too read only Non DRM books which often means pirated or cracked. I'd love to be able to Buy non DRM current titles, but I can't find anyone selling them. They all say the publisher decides on the DRM. I say time for the greedy publishing houses to go the way of the recording indurstry :/