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comment by istara
istara  ·  3833 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations

    my problem with DRM isn't that I am concerned about information that wants to be free, but that it prevents me from using content as if I owned it

Exactly this. As a result I've declined to put any DRM on any of the formats my novel is published in (if there's a copy out there with DRM on, the site was sold from did it without my knowledge or permission.

I was really pissed off to find out that I couldn't even take a screenshot from a move I bought (not rented - bought outright) from iMovie. Next time if it's available on the torrents that's where I'll go. In the end I photographed the screen with my iPhone, after even SnapzPro gave me a blank black rectangle.