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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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I saw someone on YouTube pissed that they bought 700 ebooks from Amazon and now that they enforce a harder DRM he can't read them anymore.
Bruh, you voted with your wallet to get DRM in your ebooks. You can't complain if one day they change the encryption
I fully believe that if you paid for something, it gives you the right to go pirate another copy.
The vast majority of the public hsve no idea what you just said.
Their brain goes "I like book. I buy book! No more book? But I buy book!"
I agree, but I also sort of think that's fair enough. The fact that most people "buying" ebooks don't understand what their transaction implies suggests a major market failing.
But I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face?!
With Amazons pending change to not allow ebook downloads, I downloaded all mine. I then tried to convert them to epub format and a little over half converted. I only have 80 though, I can't imagine doing that for 700.
I think we have to thank people like this for demonstrating that losing your collection isn't just a theoretical risk.
I buy CDs and rip them into lossless myself unless it's not available and then I'll sail
The most recent book I pirated was What If? 2.
I have DRM-free versions of How To and What If?.
They're made of trees.
I really like physical media. Thing is, I don't have the space for shelves upon shelves of physical media.
Same. I have a lot of books. I just can not really buy more books in the space that I have. They take up so much space. I have all of the books in my physical library plus more on my ereader.
For me the bulk would be music CDs. Those aren't even that nice as physical items ...
CD collections seem like a pain to manage.
I know someone with a vinyl collection, that's even worse. Though at least vinyl sleeves don't feel as cheap as those plastic CD cases. And noisy vinyl is probably nicer than skipping CDs, though they both suck in their own way.
Completely fair. That was mostly for the joke, but I do have a lot of digital media, at some point you don't have much choice in the matter. Most of mine is games though.
Got my first e-reader because someone was getting rid of theirs... And well, that's a kindle, a very old one. I never bought any digital book from amazon, only used it with calibre and stuff found elsewhere. Some public domain, some bought through bundles and stuff, some... "found" elsewhere. i've not had amazon wipe it yet as some say it happened to them, not even sure it could happen on mine, they haven't even supported it forever. But it's a tiny minority of my books anyway.
Feel like it's too arduous to pirate music these days
edit: Thank you guys for all the suggestions
Qobuz and Bandcamp exist. You can buy drm free music from there. Head over to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for free options. It's not that hard.
Try Soulseek, it has just about everything.
Arduous?! Why you little...
In the AOL days, I got on newsgroups and hunted songs. Good luck finding what you wanted. Then I'd download 6-12 pieces and use software to tack those pieces into a single MP3. At 56K. (Really 53K, at best, and that was with tweaking modem strings and whatnot.)
I repeat: Why you little...
53Kbps was what you got? Psst, damn younglings. In my day we reached 8Kbps speeds and considered ourselves lucky if our moms didn't want to call anyone...
I think part of it has to do with how a lot of people listen to music now. I don't listen to albums I find one or two songs I like from an artist and and them to a playlist. I am lucky to find an artist where I like more than 50% of their music.
I just rip my songs from Spotify. It's not the highest quality, but it's easy to find stuff and I wrote a little script to quickly download lists of tracks and albums so it's pretty convenient.
I rip them from youtube, that way I don't have to log into anything first.
You can rip them from tidal too. not going to link the service because I'm unsure of .worlds feelings on it but it is not hard to find.
Should I swap Audible for Steam and start another flame war? Is there a poll widget on this thing?
Been stealing all my media for 25+ years. Get on my level.
But enough about you robbing the local blockbuster at gun point!