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$25 to rent the movie, one watch within max 24 hours after you start watching it... Or $5 more to own it. Scammers.

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 year ago (3 children)

After the first few times I had apple remove a book from my library, and the only explanation they ever gave me was "sometimes books change, and when books change they are a new book," I just went back to DRM free. If I have to jump through hoops, and still can't keep the content I legally purchased, why would I legally purchase the content?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

When Amazon removed 1984 from Kindle, I thought that's it I'm done. That is too ironic, DRM free for me. Nobody's going to remove my books

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106989048

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

I believe it was Sea of Sorrows for me. The first time I contacted them asking what was up, since I wanted to read the book I had purchased earlier that year. They "gave" it to me as a "one time exception."

I never purchased a digital book again. Though I did still contact them again later that year, asking why it was gone yet again.

They tried to give me a "this may be an updated version" and I was like "no, this is a fucking novel based on a video game, they aren't releasing new versions every few months like textbooks."

[–] ours@lemmy.film 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironic but "Fahrenheit 451" being destroyed from Kindle would have been even more perfectly on the nose.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 8 points 1 year ago

True. But 1984 is still pretty strong, memory holes, double think, denying reality. Fascist organizations dictating what people can know, say, think, remember.

That's very much on the nose. But regardless, huge massive red flag, you don't own something that you have in your library unless it's physical and can't be removed at a whim.

[–] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Wow I have this book on kindle ..I'll check if its still there

[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wait till yall hear about how college text books work now

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, dude. I never even bought mine. None of my professors even used the ones the schools said we needed.

[–] SnowBunting@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a good place to buy DRM free books?

[–] melinte@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I can't recommend myanonamouse because although Dorm-free books are available, they are not for sale.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, I havent bought a digital book since. You can read between the lines there.

I don't actually believe there will be a place to purchase DRM free books. Most of the ones I am seeing from a cursory search are for copyright free books.

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can buy DRM free books @ your local book store.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, yes. But also no because we were talking about digital copies.

[–] Jabbermuggel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

kobo.com sells books without DRM (under eBook details they tell you the exact format). For example, the murderbot chronicles are sold without. Sadly they don't have everything like amazon does, especially for niche authors that only publish digitally.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oh nice, I'll keep that in mind for the future! Thank you!