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More like he already has a political stance on ebooks and he just used this one example to further his political agenda.

There's a reason why companies put customers through all this garbage and the reason is because I can easily pirate these books. So the story isn't as one sided as this guy makes it out to be. It's a contentious issue between customer rights of ownership and piracy.

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> There's a reason why companies put customers through all this garbage and the reason is because I can easily pirate these books.

There's a reason why customers pirate and the reason is because companies put customers through all this garbage.

Well it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, who started it? Customers pirating or companies adding DRM to their products?

I would wager that there's a good number of people who pirate things for the simple reason of them not wanting to pay for anything. This is the catalyst.

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