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I'm with you 100% on never buying anything with DRM, but I wouldn't think for one second that it's going to influence any business. We are in the tiniest minority. We're in a world full of DRM precisely because it's so lucrative compared to the alternative.

I wish we could vote with our votes… I know it will never happen, but I would love it if our government tried to strike a different balance between the rights of buyers and sellers of ebooks.

DRM should be allowed, but it must expire when the copyright does, it must accommodate transferring titles from one person to another, it must provide a way for accessibility devices to access the book, it must not lock readers into a single ecosystem, etc…

The problem is I vote without my wallet. If there's no DRM likely I'll get it without paying for it. So it's my vote against yours.

I love how people just skim over the situation and are like no DRM no DRM! without asking why DRM exists. It exists because of me. To eliminate DRM you have to deal with people like me who very much exist. A discussion is worth more than lying to yourself and voting me down. Plenty and I mean plenty of people responding and reading this thread is Exactly like me.