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[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

I saw someone on YouTube pissed that they bought 700 ebooks from Amazon and now that they enforce a harder DRM he can't read them anymore.

Bruh, you voted with your wallet to get DRM in your ebooks. You can't complain if one day they change the encryption

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

I fully believe that if you paid for something, it gives you the right to go pirate another copy.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The vast majority of the public hsve no idea what you just said.

Their brain goes "I like book. I buy book! No more book? But I buy book!"

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago

I agree, but I also sort of think that's fair enough. The fact that most people "buying" ebooks don't understand what their transaction implies suggests a major market failing.

[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

But I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face?!

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

With Amazons pending change to not allow ebook downloads, I downloaded all mine. I then tried to convert them to epub format and a little over half converted. I only have 80 though, I can't imagine doing that for 700.

I think we have to thank people like this for demonstrating that losing your collection isn't just a theoretical risk.