Comments on: Pardon Our Foot-Stamping Irritation https://booksquare.com/pardon-our-foot-stamping-irritation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=pardon-our-foot-stamping-irritation Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/pardon-our-foot-stamping-irritation/#comment-38757 Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:53:38 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/03/11/1078/#comment-38757 Welcome to my world! I believe, more than most, in the need to protect artists from piracy (this was once somewhat of a hobby). However, I believe that preventing the consumer from accessing materials is worse. I use media in different ways, and want to have that flexibility with songs/books/whatever that I’ve legally licensed.

I don’t need a chocolate teakettle. Cleaning up the mess is too much. And I’m lazy.

]]> By: Bill Peschel https://booksquare.com/pardon-our-foot-stamping-irritation/#comment-38734 Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:00:19 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/03/11/1078/#comment-38734 I deleted Microsoft’s book-reading software after discovering that the DRM completely prevented me from accessing any of my legally purchased books, and attempts to get it turned on via their Web site failed. Their “service” was as useful as a chocolate teakettle.

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